Palestinians organise reading chain in Gaza seaport

The reader chain cements the fact that the Palestinians are a cultured and well educated people.

Palestinians organise a reading chain in Gaza seaport in memory of intellectual martyrs who were killed by Israeli forces [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]

A Palestinian youth group organised a reading chain in the Gaza Seaport on Monday, honouring intellectual martyrs who have been killed by the Israeli occupation authorities.

Martyr Bahaa Eliyan initiated the idea of a reading chain and organised one in occupied Jerusalem three years ago. Last year, the Israelis killed Eliyan. Honouring him alongside with Basel Al-Araj, who was killed by Israel three weeks ago, the Palestinians decided to organise a similar chain in Gaza.

Eliyan inspired many Palestinians before he was killed as he was an active and well-educated youth. Similarly, Al-Araj was an activist who delivered inspiring speeches in all the Palestinian universities and education centres in the occupied West Bank.

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The reader chain cements the fact that the Palestinians are a cultured and well educated people, as well as their insistence that resistance against the Israeli occupation goes side by side with culture and education. Each person in the chain read one section from a particular book before passing it to the next person in the chain who read the next section, and so on around the group.

“This activity immortalises the ideas and activities of the cultured martyrs in the memories of the Palestinian youth,” explained the coordinator of the reader chain in Gaza, Majdoline Hassouna. She praised the local authorities in Gaza for establishing a library in the port, where the reading chain was organised. “This helped with the success of the activity and will keep it alive,” she added.

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