we are not numbers

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

Tag: refugee

Migrant, refugee, displaced / my ID bears brutal chapters / I did not choose to write
The sun will rise again, and we refuse to become refugees again. This is our home and our land.
I am a Palestinian with American citizenship living in Lebanon. And that imposes a great responsibility.
Displaced Palestinians are foreigners wherever they go.
Traveling out of Gaza was my dream, but reality was different.
I could no longer wait for change. So I set out to make it happen.
They jumped from the fire to a frying pan, but these Syrians are making a home in Gaza.
I had been accepted, but then came the news: "I am terribly sorry, but we don't hire Palestinians."
I never thought I would feel the degree of sadness I have experienced the last few days, during the clashes taking place in Ein El-Helweh camp.
My brother Adel left Gaza to find freedom. This is the second chapter of his story, which takes him to Greece.
It was about three years before I finally gathered the courage to ask my mother to share the story of her visit to Gaza with my father.