Yousef M. Aljamal

Nov 26, 2024 | progressive.org | Yousef M. Aljamal

I was born in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza in the late 1980s. My mother told me that when I was born, the refugee camp was under an , so she had to navigate her way out of the camp to travel ten miles away to Gaza City’s  Al-Shifa Hospital, which has been raided, attacked, and burned by Israeli forces many times over the decades. I was born a refugee, a status that has haunted me for my entire life. Like 70 percent of people in Gaza, my family members are refugees in their own country.

Nov 19, 2024 | aljazeera.com | Yousef M. Aljamal

Gaza coordinator for American Friends Service Committee The genocide in Gaza is a mass disabling event. More than 400 days of Israeli air strikes and constant ground invasions on heavily populated areas have left more than 22,500 people who have sustained life-changing injuries. Hundreds of people with existing disabilities have been killed or remain under the rubble. Ninety percent of Gaza's population has been displaced, some as many as 20 times.

Nov 19, 2024 | qoshe.com | Yousef M. Aljamal

The genocide in Gaza is a mass disabling event. More than 400 days of Israeli air strikes and constant ground invasions on heavily populated areas have left more than 22,500 people who have sustained life-changing injuries. Hundreds of people with existing disabilities have been killed or remain under the rubble. Ninety percent of Gaza’s population has been displaced, some as many as 20 times.

Nov 5, 2024 | progressive.org | Yousef M. Aljamal

As millions of children in the U.S. return to school, students in Gaza continue to be deprived of this right amid Israel’s ongoing attacks. Most schools have been damaged or destroyed. Those that remain standing have become shelters for Palestinians who have been displaced. Recently, Yousef Aljamal of the American Friends Service Committee interviewed several young students—ages eight to twelve years old—about their school memories and what they missed most. Here’s what they had to say.

Oct 24, 2024 | lithub.com | Yousef M. Aljamal |Rawan Yaghi

This piece was originally published in the New York War Crimes. In the preface to his edited collection of short stories, Gaza Writes Back: Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine, our professor Refaat Alareer, (or Mr. Refaat, as most of us called him) draws an image of a falling rocket with his words. The tip of the rocket, the charge or trigger, says, “we live, we live, we do.” Refaat found his calling in storytelling.