THE LIVING RECORD
More than 260 journalists have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, more than in any war in history. To be witnesses for their people, they sacrificed everything. Here, in interactive archive, their own stories are told.
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STRIKE! DEFEND! RESIST!

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Hanging in the Balance: Gaza’s reconstruction must begin with accountability, not more arithmetic

Surviving in Gaza means fighting a fierce battle of preservation to protect our names, our thoughts, and our small human stories from being swallowed by cold statistics.
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‘This is a war on the medical sector in every sense’

Hadeel Deeb, a medical researcher from Sour in southern Lebanon, discusses Israel’s war on healing in the region
From The Ground
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U.S. Lawmakers Are Pushing to Expand the Pentagon’s Relationship With the Zionist Entity

The new NDAA section could combine U.S. and Zionist forces into one
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Gaza’s Orphan Generation: For thousands of children, the most basic facts of a life have come undone

Not every child breaks down. Some go quiet instead.
From The Ground
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The Last Line of Defense: Israel’s war on Lebanese paramedics in the South

The paramedics understand the dedication and sacrifice required to save a life.
From The Ground
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Did They Bulldoze My Father's Grave?

On the occupation’s cowardly destruction of Lebanon’s southern villages
From The Ground
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To the Guardian of Our Borders: A Letter to Ali Shoeib

From The Ground
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The Yellow Line Closes in on Gaza

Situated testimonies from North Gaza amidst the Zionist entity’s choking of the border
From The Ground
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Making Rent in the Time of Genocide

'Sometimes, it’s as though I’m not living for my family. I’m living just to pay rent'
From The Ground
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The Night Watchers

Resistance in the occupied West Bank has transformed into a delicate balancing act by small municipalities, which defend themselves in near isolation against waves of settler attacks
From The Ground
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‘Save us from death, we live in graveyards’

One lawyer’s testimony from the war on Palestinian prisoners — a war of terror and revenge
From The Ground
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Butchers of Humanity

Journalist and former prisoner Mohammed Qaoud records six forms of torture at Sde Teiman
From The Ground
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Against the Clock

Freed Palestinian prisoner Hussam Shaheen on conquering time in captivity
From The Ground
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The Last Weapon of Struggle

A conversation with former prisoners Loay Odeh and Heba Muraisi on the strategic and collective power of the hunger strike
From The Ground
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‘Even the chance to seek treatment has become almost impossible”

Mousa Hassan tells journalist Mohanad Maher el-Hemrawi about fighting cancer during a genocide, first from Gaza and later from Zionist detention
From The Ground
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When a Place Becomes a Trace: The Memory of the Absent City

Engy Abdelal’s War Diary
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Two Poems by Nour Abdel Latif

’Between Here and Gone’ and ‘If I Must Starve’
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A Student from Bureij Writes to Their Former Math Teacher

Dima Hattab and her maths teacher talk about the lives they envisioned for themselves
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Hadarim Prison University: Rebelling Against the Prison and the University

Qasam al-Haj on how Palestinian captives transform the prison into a site of knowledge production
From The Ground
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Eternal Return

'The act of returning to northern Gaza demonstrates what it means to be of a place, to belong, and to be Palestinian'
From The Ground
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The Two-Story Solution

How large-scale housing development serves the occupation in Palestine
From The Ground
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Genocide Kitchen

Samaa Abu Allaban combines collages and diary entries to document the occupation’s starvation of her people
From The Ground
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‘The Land Remembered Them’

Ola Al Asi on the meaning of home
From The Ground
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Tehran Holds the Line

United, Iran Will Not be Be Defeated
From The Ground
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Turning Walls Into Voices

Interview with I Witness Silwan on their cultural resistance
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The “Israeli” “Forensic” “Institute” is Lying to You

How the Zionist Entity Fabricates Autopsies to Justify Slaughter
From The Ground
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‘We will remain, and Gaza will remain — until the very end’

Nour Abdel Latif’s diary of return to the north
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‘I am speaking to you from the heart of the siege’

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s dispatches from Kamal Adwan Hospital
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Refusing to Surrender to the Machine

Dr. Ezzideen Shehab's account of Israel's attack on Gaza's hospital system.
From The Ground
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A Violation of My Human Dignity

Journalist Hani Issa on his detention by the Occupation in northern Gaza
From The Ground
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Stand With Fadi!

A plea from Hiba Al-Wahidi and Anas Al-Sharif
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‘I have lived my life with only half a heart’

Nour Abdel Latif’s diary of displacement and sorrow
From The Ground
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Fighting Words

A Tribute to Mr. Refaat, From Two of His Students
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On the Record

Writers dissect The Times
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“Having meetings and issuing threats”

Avram Finkelstein discusses the crimes of The Times, ACT UP and how to steal the voice of authority
From The Ground
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“Their Words Were As Dangerous As Bullets”

Shuruq As’ad discusses journalism during genocide
From The Ground