we are not numbers

emerging writers from Palestine tell their stories and advocate for their human rights

Tag: explosion

I watch the scenes on TV and taste the dust of missiles.
Zeinab was literally thrown by the blast.
A father risked his life to buy back his wife's pawned earrings.
’Israeli F-16 fighter jets struck the al-Katiba building with four missiles and killed two children,’’ the newscaster intoned. Those boys could have been me.