A People Who Deserve Life, Driven by Will and Determination Gaza’s People Gather Their Wounds and Set Hope Before Them

In university halls that war has failed to extinguish, medical students in Gaza sit holding their books as a fighter holds a weapon, believing that knowledge is another form of resistance. Here, life is not reduced to mere survival, but to persistence in learning, dreaming, and continuing despite the rubble. It is a people who go to universities as if they are heading toward the future, even when the path is fraught with danger.

This is a people who want life—not as a fleeting slogan, but as a natural right. They want a homeland that embraces them, not one in which they are buried; land where hope is planted, not fear; and a sky that does not rain fire. In Gaza, life is not a luxury, but a daily act of defiance, practiced with quiet determination and unbreakable resolve.

They want the future on their land, in their land, and from their land. They are not searching for alternative homelands, nor for dreams suspended in exile. Their dreams are both simple and profound: a safe home, an open university, a child going to school without fear, and a doctor who graduates to heal his people, not to leave them.

Despite the harshness of life, there is no surrender. Oppression has never succeeded in breaking will, and destruction has not extinguished the desire to rise. Every attempt to uproot them only deepens their roots, and every siege creates a thousand new reasons to remain. They know the road is long, yet they have chosen to walk it, whatever the cost.

They want life, in spite of everything—despite war, siege, and betrayal. They want to live with dignity, to write their own story with their own hands, and to tell the world that no matter how severe injustice becomes, a human being never relinquishes the right to life, to homeland, or to a future.