“Never say that those martyred in the cause of Allah are dead—in fact, they are alive! But you do not perceive it.” (Quran 2:154)
Last night, the world lost a voice that carried the soul of Gaza—a voice that wove poetry into song, sorrow into resistance, and childhood dreams into anthems of resilience. Hassan Ayyad, the singer, the songwriter, the child poet whose words bloomed amid the rubble, has been stolen from us by a Zionist airstrike last night.
Hassan was more than just his voice; he was a testament to the unbreakable spirit of Palestine. From a young age, alongside his father @alaa.ayad41, his words carried the weight of a people under siege. He sang of freedom in the grip of occupation and of a future his heart ached to see. His poetry was not just his own—it was the voice of every child who has known nothing but blockade, every mother who has cradled both her dreams and her grief, every father who has buried his aspirations alongside his martyrs.
How cruel that a land so rich in poets must so often bury them. How unjust that a boy who should have been holding a pen, strumming an oud, or laughing with friends was instead met with bullets, bombs, and silence. Hassan’s murder is not an isolated tragedy—it is the calculated erasure of Palestinian culture, the systematic snuffing out of beauty that refuses to be crushed.
But Hassan’s words outlive him. They echo in the streets of Gaza, in the chants of protesters, in the verses scribbled on walls that even bombs cannot erase. He sang for his homeland, and now we must carry his voice onward.
To the forces that sought to silence him: You may have taken his life, but you will never extinguish his light. Palestine remembers her poets. Palestine raises her children on their words. And Palestine—through every song, every poem, every act of defiance—will be free. And you will be in the trash bin of history, forever cursed.
Rest in liberation, Hassan Ayyad. Your voice carries the struggle until we call out your name in Al-Aqsa.
Glory to our martyrs.
Inna Lilah Wa Inna Elayhi Rajiuun
The United Liberation Front for Palestine
Statement — May 5th 2025