This article explores the cultural and human devastation faced by the Palestinian people, and
the urgent need to recognize not only their right to exist but also their right to heal. It reflects on
the irreparable cost of global silence and the necessity of building restorative justice as an
ethical duty of humanity.
Abstract
This article explores the cultural and human devastation faced by the Palestinian people, and the urgent need to recognize not only their right to exist but also their right to heal. It reflects on the irreparable cost of global silence and the necessity of building restorative justice as an ethical duty of humanity.
I. The Echo of an Open Wound
In recent history, few acts of violence have resonated as deeply within the fabric of humanity as what is happening in Palestine today. Yet, its wound seems to fade under the weight of global indifference.
It is not merely a question of disputed territories. It is about mutilated lives, uprooted cultures, persecuted memories, and shattered childhoods.
Every destroyed people leaves a void in the soul of the world. Every uprooted culture unbalances the spiritual ecosystem of humanity. Because destroying a people not only extinguishes lives: it destroys a unique way of inhabiting the world.
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II. Culture: The Seed That Resists Beneath the Ruins
In Palestine, art is survival.
The tatreez embroidery, the dabke dance, the keffiyeh that covers heads and hopes—these are acts of sowing identity into plundered land.
Each watermelon held —a furtive symbol of a forbidden flag— is an act of silent resistance. Each anonymous mural, each verse by Darwish, is a cry that crosses borders.
Palestinian culture does not merely survive: it fertilizes collective memory with dignity.
III. Childhood, Women, and Suspended Time
Palestinian childhood is not measured in birthdays, but in losses.
Palestinian women—mothers, grandmothers, daughters—are the carriers of a memory that even war has not been able to destroy.
Life in Palestine moves between unfinished mourning and interrupted dreams.
IV. Mental Health: Healing the Invisible Wounds
Trauma in Palestine does not end with the gunfire.
The damage persists in trembling bodies, in children who draw bombs instead of suns, in mothers who embrace absences.
Speaking of justice for Palestine also means speaking of healing invisible wounds.
V. Restorative Justice: An Indispensable Horizon
Justice for Palestine demands more than the end of violence: it demands the reconstruction of dignity.
Restorative justice means returning the right to narrate history, to heal trauma, to rebuild life.
This process will take generations and will require all the tenderness, truth, and memory of those who today refuse to remain silent.
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VI. A Wound That Reaches Us All
We must not think that the destruction of Palestine is distant from us.
Every extinguished culture unbalances the global human and spiritual ecosystem.
Saving the memory of Palestine also means saving what remains of our humanity.
Dedication
To the children who grew up without land, to the mothers who embroidered homes in exile, to the people who refuse to be forgotten. This memory is for you.
Epigraph
«The dignity of a people is not annihilated by violence: it is upheld in their living
memory.»