Approximately 3,500 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip depend on fishing to make a living, supporting families of often eight or more people each. Many risk their lives and their boats every time they sail out any distance, due to almost daily attacks by the Israeli navy—with the most recent one on Jan. 9, when five Gaza fishermen were detained and their two boats confiscated. A team from We Are Not Numbers goes out on a night-time fishing run to experience first-hand both the joys and the risks of the profession.

Youth in Gaza respond to President Trump recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and setting in motion a plan to move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to the fiercely contested Holy City. “Hearing the news that the United States will declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel feels like some stranger has assaulted me in my home. It hurts deep in the heart,” writes Nedaa Al-Abadlah.

Haya Abdullah Ahmed writes, “Although I love to write, I refused to write about the war or the injured in Gaza. The number of jokes I told or laughed increased. And when I heard that my best friend’s husband had been killed in an Israeli attack, I cried bitterly but not for long. And then it hit.”

Gaza painter Basel El-Maqosui’s time as artist-in-resident in Connecticut has transformed his art. He had only dreamed of using pink in a war zone.

U.S. elections have an outsized effect on the residents of many countries, but among the most impacted are those imprisoned in the occupied Palestinian territories. In this video, 21-year-old Besan Aljadili, a writer for We Are Not Numbers in Gaza, responds to the nomination of Hillary Clinton for U.S. president.

What happens when a person is forced to struggle for years without enough money to support his family, and there is no way out?

We Are Not Numbers is welcoming its new “class” of promising Palestinian young writers in the Gaza Strip. The 24 writers are enjoying their orientation workshops and will be assigned their international mentors soon, starting their journey of writing their own history.

After the Israeli Supreme Court rejected Mohammad Al-Qiq’s appeal to move to a Palestinian hospital in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, out of the Israeli institution where he is being held, former hunger striker Ayman Sharawna said: “The court decision is a death sentence…. They’d rather have him dead than free.”