In memoriam

We remember them by name

نذكرهم بالاسم

The medics who ran toward the wounded. The journalists who carried the story out. The teachers who kept the lamps lit. And the children, who were doing nothing at all except being children.

This page holds the people this archive has been able to write out in full. It is a small number set against the record, and the smallness is part of what it records.

Gaza, December 2023

“If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story.”

Refaat Alareer — professor, poet, editor of Gaza Writes Back — was killed by an Israeli airstrike on 6 December 2023. Weeks earlier he had written a poem asking that, if he died, a child of Gaza would make a white kite and fly it, “and let it be a tale.”

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Killed doing their work

Razan al-Najjar

رزان النجار

Volunteer paramedic · 1996–2018

A 21-year-old volunteer paramedic from Khan Younis, shot dead by an Israeli sniper while tending to wounded protesters in Gaza in 2018.

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Shireen Abu Akleh

شيرين أبو عاقلة

Journalist, Al Jazeera correspondent · 1971–2022

Veteran Al Jazeera correspondent and household name across the Arab world, killed while covering an Israeli raid in Jenin in 2022.

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Everyone this archive has written out in full

37 people, in alphabetical order — no ranking of grief, and no ordering by how they died. Each name opens a page with what is documented about their life and the sources for it.

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And the rest of the record

For every person written out on this page there are thousands the record holds only as a row: a name, an age, a date of birth. Every one of them was somebody’s whole world. The registry is where they are, and it is searchable.

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We remember them by name, and we continue the work they began.