we go now to london where we are joined by ahmed alnaouq. is a palestinian journalist from gaza who lives now in london. co-founder of we are not numbers. at least 20 members of his family have been killed in gaza since october 7, including his father and several siblings. his recent piece for the nation is headlined "palestinians just want to be treated like human beings." welcome to democracy now! we are so sorry for your loss. if you could talk about what happened to your family? >> thank you for having me. what happened in my family happened to another palestinian family, hundreds of palestinian families. it is what has been going on for the past 75 years. my family was living in their home. there was my father, three sisters, two brothers, my cousin, 14 nieces and nephews. they were sleeping in my home october 7 when israel bombed my home and killed all of my family members. except for three. one was a kid who was 10 years old. she was severely burned and spent a few days at the hospital and then succumbed to her wounds. the rest is my

in his london flat, ahmed alnaouq mourns the 21 family members killed in an airstrike. father, nephews. the summer video of a vanished family. no—one in the world will understand how i feel, if they do not live or experience what i have experienced. and i really, really, really hope that no—one will ever experience what i'm experiencing. they can see that i'm all the time anxious, restless. i can't sleep at night. in this image, all the children's faces you can see are dead. their uncle ahmed was a man who tried to build bridges. he worked on a website with israeli journalist yuval abraham to bring stories of palestinian life in gaza to israeli readers. then, on the 22nd of october, the air strike. and from that moment, you know, i cried and i spent the entire day trying to write him something. i didn't really know what to say. will you keep trying to build a bridge with ahmed? i think you'll have to ask him. i don't know. i mean, for me, as i said to him, i made a commitment to ahmed and i will not stop. our aim was to prevent these wars from happening, but we have fai