FOR SARAH | 9/20/25-9/20/25 | MEMORIAL PIECE

Sarah Al Attar was born during a genocide. She was born from a deep love, one that transcended the darkness of the occupation. Maher and Samah fell in love during the genocide, were married during the genocide, and decided to start a family, all during the genocide. They knew their moments were fleeting and their chances few, so they took the opportunity while they had it to take the journey into parenthood. But the occupation doesn’t only kill people, it kills joy. It kills dreams, hope, and futures. A bombing injured Samah, and her only daughter was born early because of Israel’s evil. They bombed her, a mother, and her unborn child, and because of this, the child did not make it. She lived only four short hours before internal bleeding began and she wasn’t able to make it.
This was preventable. If Samah had access to medical care, if she was not bombed, if the stress of the annihilation of her people was not on her shoulders, Sarah could have lived. Sarah could be in her mother’s arms, under her father’s gaze. They could carry her to her cradle, and she’d lay in the warmth, instead of in a tiny grave the size of her father’s shoe.
She was martyred by Israel. Do not forget it. Do not forget that she would have lived if she was born in a time of peace.