A few days before his own martyrdom, my friend Mohammed Refat Jarghoun told me that he wanted to write a book with the names and biographies of all the martyrs of the genocide on Gaza.
I told him this was a great idea, but that it might be impossible. The number of martyrs – over 43,000 as of November 2024 – is too huge, and only growing. There would be no way to write them all down.
Mohammed Refat was 24 years old and a law school graduate when Israel killed him and many members of his family in September 2024.
His last social media post, on 27 September 2024, read: “Now our fate is written in blood, but the traces of the spirit clinging to freedom have not been erased.” …..more
