First-hand accounts from genocide survivors

Opening the book

Layan Ayoub

21 September 2026

I greeted the faces before me, offering a greeting accompanied by a sense of apology. It was not an apology for the absence of a greeting, but for the inadequacy of words in the face of the stories these faces carried. In their eyes were a million questions, and in their hearts were mountains of reproach and pain.

A crowd of young women, self organising into orderly queues

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Killing has many faces

Layan Ayoub

8 September 2026

A charred schoolbook, in a still from a video

In Gaza, we have learned that killing has many faces, and that it asks neither about age, gender, nor dreams. They have killed the old and the young, women and men, and targeted homes, schools, hospitals, stones, and trees. There was no justice in anything, except that death reached everyone. 💔

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