An ongoing memorial for the ongoing genocide in Gaza · Mayssa Fattouh

On 4 December 2025, Jiser will host the first phase of the project “An ongoing memorial for the ongoing genocide in Gaza”, promoted by Mayssa Fattouh. It will be part of a series of meetings held in different contexts and countries that aim to contribute to the creation of this memorial.

This collective act is dedicated to the victims of Gaza, to every life taken by the violence of the Israeli state.

We invite anyone who, through their political commitment and solidarity, wishes to contribute to weaving memories and building remembrance, creating a space for reflection and mourning, to participate.

This collective project seeks to build an ongoing tangible and intangible memorial, where every creative gesture can leave a trace or become a mark that names and remembers all Palestinians who have been killed.

Recovering, remembering, resisting, denying. Gaza is not a burial ground. Claiming, reaffirming: the right to a nation, to a land and a people. Palestine. The right to live, to play, to dream. To build a present and have a future where Palestinian life is possible in dignity and freedom.

The memorial is conceived as a political act against the genocide suffered by the Palestinian people, inspired by the words of Mahmoud Darwish: ‘If the olive trees knew the hands that planted them, their oil would turn to tears.’

We want to remember and also denounce this occupation and colonial violence. The meeting proposes that participants create ceramic olive seeds. Each seed symbolises a life taken away, but also a story that persists in the face of the systematic erasure of bodies, memories and territories in Palestine. This gesture of collective creation is not neutral: it is a vindication of the right to exist and to narrate with dignity.

The seeds will be gathered and inscribed on a public monument that not only honours memory, but also vindicates it as a place of resistance.

The sessions will be documented to preserve shared stories and memories, weaving a vivid, pluralistic and rebellious narrative that challenges the colonial logic of imposed oblivion and takes a stand against impunity.

Everyone is invited to bring a poem, a text to read, a recipe, a drawing, a memento of the place, a song or musical composition, a reflection on a just political resolution for the Palestinians, or anything else related to the context of Palestine. These materials will be collected for the first part of an archive entitled ‘From the World to the People of Palestine’.