We Are Not Numbers

We Are Not Numbers is hiring a Project Coordinator in Gaza! If you’re passionate about youth, storytelling, and empowering Palestinian voices, we’d love to hear from you. 📩 Apply by Dec 10: info@wearenotnumbers.org #GazaJobs #Palestine #Hiring

In A Soul Burning With Hope, Soha Diab wrote about her nephew Ahmed Abu Hasira—exiled, struggling, and dreaming of reuniting with his family. Killed by war just weeks before his planned reunion, his story is one of love, loss, and futures denied. Read the full story wearenotnumbers.org/a-soul-burning…

In Depicting Feelings That Are Too Heavy to Be Expressed, Esraa Albanna wrote about how art in Gaza became a tool for survival and testimony, documenting fear, loss, and hope when words were not enough. Read the full story — link in bio. wearenotnumbers.org/depicting-feel…

In Education Ought to Be an Inviolable Right, Said Alsaloul wrote about teaching in Gaza after schools and universities were destroyed. A story of students denied classrooms, futures put on hold, and why education must remain a right, even under war. wearenotnumbers.org/education-ough…

In The Place Where People Do Not Grow Old, Khaled Al-Qershali wrote about Gaza as a place where survival feels heavier than death, and living itself becomes an act of resistance. Read the full story — link in bio. wearenotnumbers.org/the-place-wher…

Twitter (X) Caption In Blood Is Life, Blood Is Spilled, Isa Hamdona wrote about studying medicine in safety while Gaza bleeds—where science demands neutrality, but reality makes it impossible. Read the full story — link in bio. wearenotnumbers.org/blood-is-life-…

In Escape at Incalculable Costs, Nada Abdel Karim Hamdona wrote about evacuation as an impossible choice—where survival had a price, and leaving meant losing everything. Read the full story — link in bio. wearenotnumbers.org/escape-at-inca…

In What Lies Ahead, Mariam Mohammed Al Khateeb wrote about survival as waiting, and the fear of what comes after a genocide. Read the full story, link in bio. wearenotnumbers.org/what-lies-ahea…

Mohammad Al-Khaldi was a top student who dreamed of becoming an engineer. He was shot and paralyzed while searching for food for his family. wearenotnumbers.org/mohammad-al-kh…

A birthday. A candle. Homemade burgers. Saeda Hamdona wrote about how life insists on continuing in Gaza, even in the smallest moments wearenotnumbers.org/if-one-day-a-p…

In Zohran Mamdani Makes Me Feel Less Alone, Lina Ghassan Abu Zayed wrote from Gaza about what it meant to hear an American politician speak about Palestine with honesty and courage. A story of survival, solidarity, and the power of being seen. wearenotnumbers.org/zohran-mamdani…

In We Write the Last Goodbye, Ahmed Mushtaha wrote about losing two childhood friends, Fawzi Judi and Fawaz Al Wahidi, within a day. A story of friendship, memory, and a neighborhood silenced by war, refusing to let the dead become numbers. wearenotnumbers.org/we-write-the-l…

A 22-year-old teacher in Gaza built a school for 150 orphans with nothing but a tent, a whiteboard, and a heart overflowing with love. Lamia teaches them math, Arabic, English, and that tomorrow still exists. wearenotnumbers.org/love-alongside…

War didn’t just take her home, it took her femininity. From peach dresses and perfumes to soot-covered hands and brittle hair, Shahed’s story shows how Gaza’s women lose parts of themselves long before they lose their lives. wearenotnumbers.org/the-lost-pink/

She gave birth without anesthesia, survived hunger, and then survived a raid where she was forced to hand her newborn to a stranger praying he’d protect her. #Gaza #MotherhoodUnderWar wearenotnumbers.org/bringing-new-l…

Shahed was meant to be a teaching assistant. War turned her university into rubble, and her dream into a phone-charging station in a tent. “I charge phones instead of minds… but I will not stop dreaming.” wearenotnumbers.org/charging-phone…

She dreamed of a master’s degree abroad, but her disabled sister, now weighing only 24kg due to famine and trauma, needs life-saving evacuation. In Gaza, even ambition becomes a sacrifice. Survival becomes the priority. wearenotnumbers.org/an-impossible-…

She tried to turn displacement into a childhood fantasy, living like Mowgli. But no imagination can protect you from drones, hunger, and fear. Gaza’s children are being raised by war, not wolves. wearenotnumbers.org/mowgli-in-gaza…

Al-Baqa Café was never just a café. It was Gaza’s pause button, until Israel erased it in a single airstrike. Even joy by the sea is now a target. wearenotnumbers.org/has-he-returne…

I’ll be speaking with four incredible writers from @WeAreNotNumbers tomorrow at the @crossingborder Festival in The Hague. Some of these writers lived through the genocide in Gaza and others and witnessed it again from exile. Please join us crossingborder.nl/nl/events/We-A…