WE WRITE NAMES

In the last year, thousands marched through Italy carrying a massive white shroud bearing the names of over 18,000 Palestinian children killed in Gaza (as of 2025). The first time the shroud was unfurled was during a demonstration against the soccer match Italy-Israel in Udine on 14 October 2025. Since then, the shroud has traveled to more than 40 localities in Italy.

Inspired by this extraordinary act of collective witness, Priests Against Genocide USA, Doctors Against Genocide, and Justice for All are leading the creation of a hand-written Children's Shroud. Every child's name is inscribed by hand by congregations and groups, Christians, Muslims, Jews, people of other faiths, and those of no religious tradition are coming together, affirming the equal dignity of every child and our common humanity. See the lists below.

The corporal nature of inscribing the names of those is a spiritual practice rooting us in the best of our religious traditions with moral imperative to defend human dignity, to seek justice and peace, and stand up to those who abuse power and destroy lives.

In Gaza, Palestinian parents wrote their children's names on their bodies so they could be identified when homes were bombed and bodies torn apart. Writing their names on their skin was an act of refusing to let their children vanish into the statistics of war. 

And so we write their names again — this time not on their bodies, but on a Shroud the world cannot look away from. We write each name so that no child disappears, and no death is forgotten. We carry their names, uplifting each child and standing in solidarity with their families and all the people of Palestine.

20,000+ killed and counting. Where is the justice?