Powerful installation: “We Deserve Life: Honoring Our Martyrs” showcases in Toronto this week to memorialize over 10,000 Palestinians killed by Israel
The installation - which displays the names of over 7,000 Palestinians killed, and has pictures and stories of over 50 Palestinian martyrs - aims to bring attention to Israel’s genocide, and honor the lives taken. It affirms that Palestinian martyrs are not just numbers: each martyr is a person who lived a full life and was loved by many. It aims to counter the consistent dehumanization of Palestinians at the hands of Canadian politicians and mainstream media. All the Palestinians who have been murdered by Israel had families, aspirations and had no crime other than being born Palestinian in Gaza.
“Martyr is an Arabic word used to refer to those who are killed for a cause or principle: in the case of Palestine, for the cause of Palestinian freedom and liberation. We use this word in defiance of ongoing attempts in Canada to demonize its use and dehumanize the Palestinians murdered by Israel.” - Rawan Nabil, PYM
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