art and words dedicated to the children of Palestine

Letters for Palestinian childhoods

Queridos niños y niñas de Gaza

Queridos niños y niñas de Gaza

Les escribo desde México. Parecería que nuestras tierras están muy alejadas en distancia física pero no lo están en la distancia de nuestros corazones con los de ustedes. Quiero decirles que estoy muy enojada por la...

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To the children of Gaza

To the children of Gaza

You’ve been in a dark nightmare for too long. I don’t know if a few days of ceasefire allowed for some relief. I hope so, I hope you're warmed up a bit, I hope you're fed, and I hope you've been able to sleep quietly....

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Tiny beads

Tiny beads

Dear children of Palestine You are as precious as the tiny beads that together shape the words Free Palestine. As each bead is carefully placed, they tell the story of a Free Palestine. I am so sad and angry that you...

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Dear Khaled Joudeh

Dear Khaled Joudeh

I saw your picture in the first page of a newspaper very far from where you live. You are only 9 years old wearing a non-sleeves T-shirt and barefoot. You were at the morgue, crying and caressing the face of your...

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I’ll Meet You in a Dream

I’ll Meet You in a Dream

I don’t know your name, and this haunts me. I want to say your name, to keep you alive. Because I don’t know if you are or not. But when I close my eyes, I see you. Your hands are chalked, grey, from the particles of...

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My mother was a child of war

My mother was a child of war

My mother was a child of war in a cellar she hid with her mother while the bombs - silent ones which would suddenly burst - crushed homes on the street and she waited for father to return My father was a young man of...

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Stories of Children

Stories of Children

When I was a little girl, I was scared of the dark. I used to slip into my grandmother’s bed in the middle of the night, and nestled against her, all nice and warm, I used to say: “ can you tell me a story?”...

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Dear little one

Dear little one

The world is dark outside and in, The noise is scary, Even if you put your fingers in your ears. You are hungry, wet and cold, Where is daddy gone? Why is mummy crying? Why is the world so hostile and unsafe? Home is...

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This Saturday

This Saturday

This Saturday, November 25, my daughter Laura turns 4 years old.  She wants a unicorn cake and lots of balloons.  It's hard for me not to have mixed feelings when, while I  buy her balloons and look for...

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Dear Yehya

Dear Yehya

I saw your father holding you, wrapped in white. You were born in this atrocity and killed just two days later. We were told that your death certificate was printed...

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Write My Name*

“Some parents in Gaza have resorted to writing their children’s names on their legs to help identify them should either they or the children be killed.”—CNN, 10/22/2023Write my name on my leg, MamaUse the black...

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Dear Salma

Dear Salma

I have watched many times the short heart wrenching clip of you mourning the death of your beloved bird, killed due to airstrikes in your community. I am writing to let you know that I have thought of you often with...

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Dear Palestinian childhoods

Dear Palestinian childhoods

I write you as the state of Israel executes a genocide against you. I wonder what would happen if every time the state of Israel kills a Palestinian child, an Israeli Jewish child vanishes? Disappears?  As the...

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To Hanan

To Hanan

So much has changed in your life since your 3rd birthday celebrations on the 30th September. Your mum sent me videos then of you riding in a big blue car in an arcade, bouncing up and down with your contagious laugh....

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A los hermosos y valientes niños Palestinos

A los hermosos y valientes niños Palestinos

Pienso en ustedes jugando en el Return Park, en el campamento de Malika, y escucho en mi mente sus voces, sus risas, sus gritos de felicidad y de júbilo. Los veo corriendo, saltando y tomándose de las manos, cantando y...

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To the boy who loves his cat

To the boy who loves his cat

I’m not a cat person. My sister has a cat, she is very mean. But I like your cat. She seems sweet. And I love her because you love her. You saved her from the first floor of a bombed building, while traumatized...

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To the unknown boy in a Gaza hospital

To the unknown boy in a Gaza hospital

One of the first images I saw coming out of the Gaza bombings was of you.  I saw parts of the clip twice but could not watch the entire video.  I assume you are about 8-9 years old. You were wounded and...

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