my speech at the national march for# Palestine

As a British citizen, as a nurse, as a Palestinian — I stand here today with pain piercing through my heart.

I want to read to you the last words of Gazan paramedic Rifaat Radwan:

سامحيني يمة، هذا الطريق اللي اخترته، اساعد الناس.. 

> "Forgive me, Mum. This is the path I have chosen — to help people."

How noble.

How kind.

Yet the merciless Israeli killing machine did not hesitate to murder him — along with 14 of his colleagues.

They joined over 1,580 health workers killed by Israel.

My heros, my role models. I proudly call them colleagues.

I feel elevated to call them my colleagues — those who paid the ultimate price for caring.

I feel devastated to call them my colleagues — murdered in front of the world, in plain sight.

We listened to the outrage...

But the silence is deafening.

> "Forgive me, Mum. This is the path I have chosen — to help people."

Let these words resonate across the globe.

Let them expose the silence. Let them expose the complicity.

But this complicity isn't just distant — it's Here, in the UK — as we try to take a stand, to show our colleagues in Gaza that we care —

we find ourselves targeted.

Labelled.

Silenced.

But we will not be silenced.

When they support genocide, we choose humanity.

When they preach division, we create unity.

When they demand silence, we stand in solidarity.

They made the impossible real - what we thought never again, is a live-streamed genocide. We thought it impossible that we'd witness such horror and then be told we cannot even oppose it. 

They made it real.. 

But if they can make the impossible real, so can we. Soon this will also be real

 there will be Justice for the victims. 

We will see Netanyahu in the Hague. 

And 

We will see A free Palestine!

سامحيني يمة، هذا الطريق اللي اخترته، اساعد الناس.. 

Forgive me, Mum. This is the path I have chosen — to help people."

My hero, my role model.. Him and all the health workers in Gaza, giving it all to help people. 

Three of us, NHS workers, launched a legal case because we refuse to be silenced, we refuse to be complicit.

A Jewish doctor, Aarash, to say Jews stand against genocide, not in my name.

A Bahraini doctor, Sara, to say the complicity of Gulf states, not in my name.

And myself a Palestinian nurse to say, I have every right to say my name..

My name is Ahmad and I am Palestinian.
my speech at the national march for #Palestine