The Arab International Center for Strategic Research and Studies announced the launch of a national project to perpetuate the memory of the martyred children of Palestine, in continuation of the international campaign **“Their names are not numbers”**, through establishing the Palestinian Archive for the Memory of Martyr Children, issuing a documentary book, establishing the Palestinian Observatory for Childhood and Child Rights, and launching the Palestinian Childhood Ambassadors Network.
The project aims to preserve the names of Palestinian children who lost their lives, document their stories, and consolidate their presence in national and human memory, after the campaign that witnessed the reading of the names of 21,556 children during 72 hours of live broadcast in partnership with the official Palestinian media.
Dr. Walaa Battat, head of the center and the initiator of the campaign’s idea, confirmed that the initiative represents a move from documentation to sustainable institutional work, to ensure that the names of martyred children remain a witness to the truth and a message confirming that the children of Palestine are not numbers, but rather lives and stories that deserve to be preserved and not forgotten.
A national project to perpetuate the memory of the martyred children of Palestine... Launching a new phase of the “Their Names Are Not Numbers” campaign
A month after the conclusion of the international campaign **“Their Names are Not Numbers”**, the Arab International Center for Research and Strategic Studies announced the launch of a strategic national project to perpetuate the memory of the martyred children of Palestine, through a package of institutional initiatives aimed at preserving their names, documenting their stories, and consolidating their presence in national and human memory.
The initiatives include the establishment of the **Palestinian Archive for the Memory of Child Martyrs**, the issuance of a documentary book entitled **“Their Names are Not Numbers”**, the establishment of the **Palestinian Observatory for Childhood and Child Rights**, in addition to the launch of the **Network of Palestinian Childhood Ambassadors**, which establishes a permanent national path concerned with documenting crimes targeting children, defending their rights, and protecting their memory from disappearance and oblivion.
This transformation comes as an extension of the international campaign that constituted one of the most prominent Palestinian humanitarian and media initiatives, and has today moved from a media event to a sustainable national project, confirming that the names of Palestinian children will remain present in the collective consciousness, as they are the owners of stories, lives, and dreams, and not just numbers on lists of victims.
The Arab International Center for Strategic Research and Studies, in partnership with the official Palestinian media, concluded the campaign activities on May 3, 2026, after **72 continuous hours of live broadcast**, dedicated to reciting the names of Palestinian children who lost their lives during the war on Gaza, in an unprecedented experience that extended over three days, and turned the names into a living humanitarian testimony before the world.
The campaign was launched on April 30, 2026, and witnessed the recitation of **21,556 names** of Palestinian children, with wide participation from academics, media figures, researchers, jurists, and diplomats, in addition to political and societal figures from Palestine, the Arab world, and a number of countries around the world, in a global message that aimed to restore the human dimension of child victims, and break their reduction to statistics and numbers.
His Excellency Minister Dr. Ahmed Assaf, General Supervisor of the Palestinian Official Media, confirmed that the campaign embodied a high humanitarian and national message, and contributed to highlighting the suffering of Palestinian children and the grave violations to which they are exposed, reiterating the official media’s commitment to defending humanitarian issues, first and foremost the rights of the Palestinian child and preserving his dignity.
For her part, Dr. Walaa Battat, President of the Arab International Center for Research and Strategic Studies and leader of the campaign, said that the initiative was launched from a firm conviction that the Palestinian child cannot be reduced to a number, but rather is a name, identity, story, dream, and future that was stolen by aggression.
She added that the campaign sought to return the human being to the forefront of the media narrative, and to confront attempts to erase collective memory, by documenting the names of martyred children as an integral part of Palestinian national history and the human conscience.
She stressed that the new phase represents a transition from documentation to institutional building, through the establishment of a national system that preserves the names of child martyrs for future generations, and provides a scientific, legal, and media reference that documents the truth and preserves memory.
It concluded by emphasizing that the names recited during the campaign will not remain just a historical record, but will turn into a living national memory, an eternal human testimony, and a continuous message to the world that the children of Palestine are not numbers, but entire lives, dreams that were assassinated, rights that do not lapse by statute of limitations, and a memory that will remain present as long as the truth remains.
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