Global Poets Protest Killing of Three Poets and Civilians

 100 freedom-loving poets from around the world protested against the killing of 3 poets in Israel’s attacks on Iran and Gaza, as well as against the killing of mothers and children anywhere in the world.

These 100 poets from different countries and continents signed a protest statement that was written at the initiative of Iranian poet Alireza Bahrami, editor-in-chief of Asre Rowshan magazine.

(Poets who want their names to be included as signatories of this statement can leave Their name and the name of their country at the bottom of this text, in the comments.

The new list of signatories of the statement will be updated and announced in several times.)

Statement and list of signatory poets and names of countries:

The monster of war is destructive. It is the enemy of people's lives and all human values that have been tried to be discovered for centuries.

The monster of war is against all creation and is the beginning of destruction. It kills children and women. The demon of war also kills poets; the heirs of water, wisdom and light.

Parnia Abbasi, an Iranian poet, was killed in her bed, at home, by one of the Israeli attacks on Tehran. She was 24 years old and did not have the opportunity to see the publication of her first book of poetry.

Heba Abu Nada was another poet who was killed a few months ago in the bombings of Gaza by the army of the occupying army of Israel. She was 32 years old and published several books of poetry. Rifaat al-Arir was also a 44-year-old poet and university lecturer who was killed in the same way.

Poets are narrators of the beauties of the world and life who reveal the ugly face of war.

We, the freedom-loving poets of the world, with respect for the difference in human beliefs, condemn the murder of children, mothers and poets everywhere in the world.

We hope that politicians will reach a point of transformation that they will read a book of poetry and then think a little.