Stich their names together

I was truly humbled to have been entrusted to embroider the names of 180 people who have lost their lives in Palestine with such shattering brutality. The project itself organised by the brilliant Mary Evers (www.stitchtheirnamestogether.com)

When taking on the project, I was unprepared for my heart to crack with waves of grief and shock each time I picked up the needle and thread. Green thread for children, red for women and black for men.

The sheer magnitude of the numbers dead and the horror at which they lost their precious lives weighed so heavy. My hand would freeze in panic at so many names in black and white in front of me - resembling a school register, deepening the horror. I would come across ages matching my own children and would wonder about their worlds.

Every name on the list is a beautiful life lost - entire families, their family names, their histories, women, men, grandparents and so many sacred children.

The last name I stitched was a child called Habiba aged 6.