Journalist Hossam Shabat

Aside from journalism, almost every day we cook meals to feed the displaced in schools in North Gaza. With our very limited supplies, we cook and distribute meals to hundreds every day. We appreciate all the aid workers who were killed while trying to help us in Gaza, but our lives matter as much as theirs do. Our lives should be respected and appreciated just as much as theirs are. Palestinian lives deserve to be mourned just as much as any other life.

As young men, we found ourselves having to learn how to cook and bake to help our people. Every day, we do our work with honor. But why did the world not care about the famine or aid workers until it happened to non-Palestinians? Why do our lives not matter as much?

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