“ _____________” * * Gaza - No Words - See the Exhibit

The Gaza Genocide Tapestry is a collective textile work by Palestinian women embroiderers across occupied Palestine, refugee camps and the diaspora. Composed of 100 hand-stitched panels, it documents the ongoing destruction of Gaza since October 2023 through tatreez, a traditional Palestinian embroidery practice historically used to encode identity and heritage.

Hundreds of kilometres apart, from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank to Lebanon’s refugee camps and as far as New Zealand, Palestinian women have defied borders and fragmentation imposed by decades of Israeli occupation to collectively produce a cross-stitched testimony that refuses to let the world forget what is being done and to whom, binding the world to what has been unfolding and to those living through it. The tapestry transforms an inherited language of heritage into a material record of loss and perseverance. Each panel marks a fragment of the Gaza genocide – neighbourhoods erased, landmarks destroyed, families displaced and lives stolen – forming an archive that resists abstraction.

The work is the latest chapter of the Palestine History Tapestry, which traces the land’s history from Neolithic times to the present. It frames embroidery as testimony: a slow, collective practice of remembering in the face of erasure.