Mary Evebers, a specialist in the orthopedic field, embroidered the names of the martyrs and created a program to document the names of the martyrs to commemorate the dead Palestinians as a result of the destruction of Israel in the Gaza Story.
The idea of this project is based on the names of the dead and age embroidery, which is based on the colors of the colors of the Palestinian flag, so that the world remembers that each of these is a life that is not reduced to a number.
Evers grew up in an environment near the Middle East because his father had spent many countries in the region like Syria, Lebanon and Egypt, because his father’s work within the United Nations Peacekeeping Force.
His family lived in obvious events such as the Sabra and the Shadila assassination in Lebanon (1982), which witnessed the destruction of wars in this place of the world.
Evers has been living in London since 1980, where he studied orthopedic study and worked in the field for more than 33 years, and he had to stop his work after a bike accident.
The Irish doctor later devoted himself to human rights activities, especially those who support the Palestinian cause, which has long been in his conscience.
Evers was launched in 2024 after the eruption of the destruction of Gaza for 17 months, which aims to recall all those who were killed by a manual embroidery program.
In this program, the name and age of the deceased have been transformed into an embroidered process, and every book has been transformed into a refusal to forget, and thanks to this humanitarian work, it was able to mobilize vast support from various countries of the world.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has made a complete US support in Gaza, which has died and injured by Palestinians, most of them missing children and women and more than 14,000.
** When the number becomes a name, everything changes
Speaking to Anadolia reporter from its workshop in London, Mary Eveberrs began the idea of the project after the artwork of Bengali paint, Yasmin Jahan Na Bur, who used embroidery to document the history of the colonial era, which promoted the same tool in documenting the same tool in Palestinia.
He has been deeply affected by the Palestinian embroidery art that women have been carrying out for decades, and embroidery of historical events, everyday life and the tragedies of fabrics.
He said: “When you give a name, people change, this is what happens and helps with emotional contact. Every thread refers to a life, and every stitch proves the memory of the martyrs.
Evers uses black fibers to embroide the names of men, red strings for females, and green fibers for women, to mark the colors of the Palestinian flag, and make sure that the embroidery of a name takes one hour.
Although it starts to own the project, it has become a joint committee movement over time, and today more than 200 people from different parts of the world contribute to it, some of them participate in the embroidery, while others support the project in various ways.
He continued: “I have no plan to show this work in an exhibition, but I have been actively thinking about organizing a special exhibition for the project.”
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Mary Iwebers added that the wrong image of the media about the Palestinian people is always hurting her.
He continued: “Every Palestinian I know in my life is a good and decent person. He does not believe in violence and does not raise his children for hate, but rather the right opposite.”
He added, “The Palestinian society is based on a society and values rooted in faith. In spite of all the atrocities we see on the screens, the way people help each other in Gaza are very affected.”
He added: “The people were digging amidst the ruins, pulling the bodies and carrying the wounded to the hospitals. There was a very strong sense of the cooperation and spirit of the community. It was one of the most important reasons that prompted me to start this project. I wanted to reflect this type of unity because we lost it in our communities.”
He added that he was always attracted by the power of collective awareness of the Palestinian people and that it was a new hope in mankind to see how people are in the face of loss and destruction.
In his message of the project, Everes says: “The message I want to deliver is worth every person. It is part of this world, and has a unique spirit, life and influence.
He continued: “Through this job, I am trying to highlight the value of man, and the feeling of sympathy, because the only way to advance in this world is to support each other and be a community.”
Evers concluded by noting that anyone who wants to join the project can contact the Instagram Account (stitch.their.Names.together) or E -mail (E -mail(Email protected)). (Agencies)
