If I Must Die Quotes

“According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, approximately 30 percent of Gaza’s agricultural land cannot be worked without severe personal risk. The buffer zone has caused a huge loss of livelihood.”
― Refaat Alareer, If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose

“But Israel, in its arrogance, the PA’s Mahmoud Abbas, in his cravenness, and Arab regimes, in their complicity, seem to have agreed that a good Gaza is a starved Gaza.”
― Refaat Alareer, If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose

“However, there is one thing the whole world should know: in face-to-face combat, far fewer Palestinian fighters were killed than Israeli soldiers.”
― Refaat Alareer, If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose

“You don’t know whether this is, this is it. We don’t deserve this. We’re not animals like the Israelis think. Our kids deserve better. Israel knows that they want to punish the kids, the civilians. And I have always said this, even before, even from the nineties when young Palestinians praised those valiant fighters. They are to be praised. But if you know them in real life, when you see the pictures of those fighters, they’re very simple people. They’re lightly armed, modestly trained, but they have a weapon that Israel does not have: the weapon of the belief, the faith, that this is your land, that you are fighting a brutal European colonial enterprise that has been brutalizing Palestinians for over seven decades.”
― Refaat Alareer, If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose