A struggle towards freedom

10,000 people have found this place. A space built from urgency, from mourning, from the ache of witnessing. When I started State of Siege, I did not imagine growth. I imagined my duty to my people. I imagined a blank screen and the weight of a child’s name I did not want to forget. I imagined my people starving, bleeding, buried, and the unbearable feeling of being far away. I imagined the sound of a mother weeping when no one listens, and I thought…someone must write it down.

So I did. I wrote about children whose skulls were blown open in their sleep. About toddlers pulled from rubble with their hands still clutching toys. About the plastic bags where bodies go when the morgues are too full. About the breadlines that became graveyards. I wrote because the world insisted on silence, and silence felt like complicity.

But now, after hundreds of thousands of words and a mountain of grief, I ask myself what comes next. What does it mean to keep writing when the killing continues? When the screams keep coming? When the dead cannot read?

This platform exists because YOU are here. Because you’ve chosen not to look away. For that, I am grateful in ways I cannot fully say. But this gratitude lives beside something else. A quiet question. A wound that does not close.

If the words do not stop the bombs, if they cannot reach the ears that matter, if they only fill space between one massacre and the next—what then?

I do not have the answer. But I know this: we remember. We name. We resist the erasure. And even if the world does not change, we refuse to let it forget. That, for now, is enough.

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Here is the last list of the martyrs of Palestine in the last two years. HERE. They each deserve for their names to not be statistics, for us to read and acknowledge the lives stolen.

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