Zhar Art Collective

Curating Palestine & Levant's immortal fragments—art, poetry, film—from olive roots to besieged horizons.
Art therapist preserving the soul's defiant script.

[Zara Zhar @Boudicca61AD]

Palestinian fedayeen, undergoing training in 1975 at a PFLP camp

[Zara Zhar @Boudicca61AD]

Vintage poster entitled 'Martyr's Day…The Revolution Continues'
- Issued by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine #PFLP in 1995.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Batoul Qalaji, her son Ali, and her parents, were killed in an Israeli attack earlier today on Sohmor, in Lebanon's Western Bekaa.

Qalaji's colleague eulogized her, saying: "Today, let me tell you about Batoul. Batoul, who decided to work 100 jobs at the same time to support her young son, who had no one but his mother to embrace him, to help her sick father, and to stay by the side of her elderly mother. This is Batoul—the strong woman, striving for her child and her parents."

[Shia Of Palestine @ShiaOfPali]

Karbala was never about winning a battle

It was about making sure truth would never die

Imam Hussain did not stand believing he would conquer territory
He stood so that falsehood would never inherit legitimacy

The objective was never a momentary victory
The objective was that generations later people would still know who stood with truth and who stood with power

﴿مِّنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رِجَالٌ صَدَقُوا مَا عَاهَدُوا اللَّهَ عَلَيْهِ﴾
Among the believers are men who remained true to what they pledged to Allah — 33:23

Some fulfilled their vow
Others still await and have not changed in the least

This is why martyrdom terrifies tyrants

Because when a people understand Karbala
They stop measuring victory by today’s headlines
By borders
By destruction
By temporary setbacks

They begin measuring victory by whether truth survives

Hajj Qassem understood this

The leaders of the Palestinian resistance understood this

That the blood of the martyrs is not avenged by another funeral

It is avenged when Palestine remains alive in the hearts of people
When Al-Quds is not abandoned
When oppression loses its ability to convince people to submit

Karbala was not an ending

It was proof that truth can be surrounded and still win

Victories are not meant to be momentary

Truth is meant to remain

Every day is Ashura
Every land is Karbala

[Gaza Great Minds @GazaGreatMinds]

This is it.
The cheering and the pride. The smiles and the certificates held up high like trophies.
A whole community celebrating children who never stopped showing up despite everything thrown against them.
Congratulations, Class of 2026.
You earned every second of this.🤍
#Wewillreadagain

[Free Palestine TV @TVFreePalestine]

The Jewish invaders are getting barbequed in Nabatieh's Ali alTahir hill; and they haven't been able to extract the rotten corpses of their militia for 24hrs. That is why they went on a rampage today. Hopefully the men of God took them to exchange for Lebanese & Palestinian hostages in the dungeons of the Jewish Colony.

[Wissam Shabat 𓂆 🇵🇸 @wissamshabat]

This was among the last posts shared by our colleague Ahmad Washah, expressing his longing for the eternal abode and his yearning to reunite with his brother, the heroic martyr Mohammad Washah (Abu Samir). May God have mercy on you, dear beloved ones, and may loved ones be reunited, God willing.

[Iskra Books @iskrabooks]

“‘Completely neutral culture,’ ‘absolute freedom,’ ‘to stand above politics,’ ‘to be indifferent’—such terms are meaningless. The allegation that ‘neutrality is to be noble and absolutely free’ is one of a coward or a reactionary!”
-Trường Chinh, ‘Marxism and Vietnamese Culture’

[Zara Zhar @Boudicca61AD]

"A Child’s View of Gaza" No 1

One of many drawings by the children of Gaza (2011) that Jewish organizations pressured an Oakland children’s museum to cancel. Community leaders say the shutting down of the exhibition was the result of a disturbing — and well-funded — campaign to silence Palestinian voices across the US.

I will be re-posting all the drawings over the next week, we'll have our own exhibition for them.
Click on my notifications, I'm fully shadowbanned, it's the only way you'll see my posts🫶

[The Palestinian Archive الأرشيف الفلسطيني @palestinian_the]

راجعون..راجعون..راجعون

بريشة الشهيد غسان كنفاني (١٩٥٧ | ١٩٦٢)

[Shia Of Palestine @ShiaOfPali]

Before Karbala there was not only battle.

There was isolation.
There were letters.
There were promises.
There were people who agreed in private and disappeared in public.

Then came the moment where positions became visible.

Watching Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi’s final will, I thought of that lesson.

Not because history repeats itself literally.
But because every generation is tested by the same question:

What do you do when conviction becomes costly?

His message was not “remember me.”

It was: do not disappear.
Do not become comfortable.
Do not let fear make your decisions for you.

Karbala was never only about who remained standing at the end.

It was about who remained standing when standing became expensive.

History remembers sacrifice.

But it also remembers silence.

Every day is Ashura.
Every land has its test.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed Jana today in Arab Salim, South Lebanon.

Jana was pregnant.

They murdered a mother and her unborn child.

This is what Israel calls a “ceasefire.”

[Mujamma Haraket @MujammaHaraket]

*Update on the Collaborator File: Ghassan al-Dahini denounced by his family*

The Dahini family in the Gaza Strip republished a tribal declaration originally issued in late 2025 in which they disowned and revoked the tribal protection of the agent Ghassan al-Dahini and his brothers Ahmed, Abdulaziz, and Mohammed al-Dahini. The statement stresses that these collaborators do not represent the family and that the family does not accept responsibility for any of their actions.

The statement was republished following the death of the agent Abdulaziz al-Dahini, Ghassan al-Dahini’s brother, in which the family reaffirmed its previous position, stressing that the contents of the earlier tribal statement remain in effect without any change or modification.

The resistance-linked platform, “Pursuit of the Fifth Column,” today published an article elaborating that:

“Two days ago, the suicide of the agent Abdulaziz al-Dahini, the younger brother of Ghassan al-Dahini, the principal collaborator with the ‘Israeli’ occupation, was announced. Sources stated that Abdulaziz al-Dahini died by suicide from a gunshot wound to the head, and that his body was transferred this morning from Soroka Hospital in occupied Beersheba.

Ghassan al-Dahini attempted to conceal the scandal of his brother Abdulaziz’s suicide and claimed that he had been killed in an accident. However, his lies soon came to light, and sources confirmed that Abdulaziz had taken his own life.”

*Who is Ghassan al-Dahini?*

Ghassan Abdulaziz Muhammad al-Dahini was born on October 3, 1987, in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

His brother, Muhammad, hanged himself in prison following his arrest on drug trafficking charges.

Through his father, who was an official in the Palestinian Authority’s National Security Service, Ghassan al-Dahini joined the ranks of the PA’s security services at an early age. He currently holds the rank of first lieutenant and claims to be a “major.”

The “Jaysh al-Islam” organization, which claimed to represent al-Qaeda in Palestine, recruited him due to his ideological extremism and appointed him as the official in charge of the Rafah area. The takfiri organization dismissed him shortly thereafter in what it described as “over a case of [his] homosexuality.”

Al-Dahini was arrested several times on criminal charges by the security services in Gaza, including in March 2020 and November 2022.

Ghassan al-Dahini belongs to the al-Tarabin tribe, the same tribe as the slain agent Yasser Abu Shabab. The two are related.

Yasser Abu Shabab recruited al-Dahinu into his militia and he became his right-hand man after the resistance’s “Arrow” (Sahem) unit eliminated Abu Shabab’s brother Fathi during a raid on its hideouts east of Rafah.

[Zara Zhar @Boudicca61AD]

Photo of Leila Khaled circa 1969
PFLP Members drinking tea during a training excercise in Jordan. Among the group is Salim Issawi.

“I am a freedom fighter... I say occupation is terrorism. Zionism is terrorism.”
— Leila Khaled

[Zara Zhar @Boudicca61AD]

Beautiful portrait painting by my fav Lebanese artist Ayman Baalbaki from his acclaimed "Al-Mulatham" series. These large-scale, expressionist paintings feature anonymous "fida’i" with their faces obscured by the keffiyeh & masks.

[Palibasiji @PaliBasiji]

Mashallah the world is waking up!! ⚔️🇵🇸🖤

[Mujamma Haraket @MujammaHaraket]

I am excited to share this translation of this memoir, "This Is How I Came to Know Abu Suhaib Izz al-Din al-Haddad: And So, I will never forget him." 
The original Arabic reflection on Commander Izz al-Din al-Haddad (Abu Suhaib) was originally circulated on private channels. I became aware of it vi Khaled Safi, who kindly gave me permission to translate this into English. This piece of writing was authored by an al-Qassam Brigades fighter writing under the anonymous nom-de-plume, “Abdulaziz.”
The writer not only knew al-Haddad for over twenty years but also worked intimately under him. Based on what this memoir reveals, he also participated in the “Great Crossing” of and the Flood.
This insightful short piece offers some novel historical facts about Qassam’s operational history, including, first and foremost, the specifics of how the Lebanese Hizbu’llah’s closed-wire communication system was imported from South Lebanon to Gaza after a number of Qassam fighters had traveled from Gaza to training sessions with their comrades to the north. Figures like al-Haddad and Fadi al-Batsh helped implement this networked arrangement.

Furthermore, Abdulaziz’s reflections detail how the indigenous weapons manufacturing transpired within Gaza, with al-Haddad playing an important role in this endeavor as well.

Linked in the comments below is the translated memoir, with editorial translator comments. A short excerpt is also appended below:

"When the al-Furqan War (2008–2009) broke out, the network quickly proved its worth. Abu Suhaib made extensive use of the network, avoiding wireless communications whenever possible. He also personally oversaw the repair of lines that were repeatedly severed under the relentless bombardment. In the military assessment conducted after the war, Abu Suhaib submitted a strategic report recommending a complete transition to a wired communications network. The group later relied on that report in its efforts to persuade the Qassam Brigades’ Military Council to adopt the concept and institutionalize it as a permanent strategy.
Consequently, what began as a simple idea and a modest switchboard in the al-Tuffah neighborhood gradually evolved into a weapon in its own right. Over time, it burgeoned into a major technical latticework that drew some of the movement’s most skilled engineers and commanded vast resources. Had it not been for God’s grace, and for Abu Suhaib’s willingness to champion the idea and take a chance on it, the communications network would never have seen the light of day in Gaza.
[…]
Abu Suhaib’s maverick leadership did not end there. He became the foremost champion of every unconventional and innovative idea. When [...] Haitham Shamali (Abu al-Walid), who was assassinated by occupation agents in July 2025, proposed using GPS technology to guide robotic systems, Abu Suhaib immediately embraced the concept and made a point of attending every field test. He responded in much the same way when another group proposed building a GPS-guided submersible. He worked alongside them to overcome technical obstacles and even personally invited Sheikh Raed Saad to observe the trials and lend his support.
[...]
Our greatest consolation today is that Abu Suhaib did not leave this world before raising a generation of steadfast fighters who will avenge the blood of their leaders and unflaggingly carry on the struggle. Even now, I can see a remarkable generation taking shape, a generation driven by an unyielding love for its land. It is being forged amid the rain of rockets, born from the rubble and the mounting toll of the fallen. It will be galvanized by a generation that has lost faith in the false promises of international justice and the impotence of the aging United Nations international order."

[Mujamma Haraket @MujammaHaraket]

A group of local Palestinian activists have started producing a short film series called “The Sieve,” documenting the violent crimes committed by the collaborator gangs against the people of Gaza. This episode covers an assassination against a da’wah leader carried out by Hussam al-Astal’s gang. The series seeks to expose the agents and their criminal activity.

[Zara Zhar @Boudicca61AD]

A poem I wrote, dedicated to the wives of martyred Palestinian Fedayeen. Paired with a painting by Ramallah artist Rania Amodi.

"For the Wives of the Fallen Stars"

In the shadowed valleys of resistance,
you stand, unyielding as the olive tree,
roots deep into a land that weeps blood and hope.
Your husbands, lions of the dawn,
carried the weight of a nation’s dream,
their hearts a map of tunnels and stars,
each beat a promise to the soil they kissed.

You, the silent warriors,
bore the ache of their absence in every dawn,
your laughter a rebellion against despair,
your tears a river that fed the earth’s thirst.
They fought with rifles and faith,
while you fought with the stillness of waiting,
each knock at the door a dagger of dread,
yet you held the home as a fortress of love.

The world may not see your scars,
hidden beneath the folds of your courage,
but we honor you, keepers of their light,
mothers of their legacy,
who cradle their children with stories of valor,
whispering, “Your father was a flame,
and you, my child, are his ember.”

For every martyr who kissed the sky,
there is a wife who kissed his brow,
her hands trembling, yet steady with purpose,
her voice a song that carries his name
through the winds of Gaza,
through the streets of the West Bank,
to the heavens where they now rest.

We see you, sisters of sorrow and strength,
your sacrifice a tapestry of resilience,
woven with threads of loss and undying love.
May your hearts find peace in the echoes of their laughter,
may their cause bloom in the freedom you dream,
for you are the unsung heroes,
the backbone of a people unbroken.

— Zara Zhar

[Najlaa . @Gredtoo]

من ضمن الاخبار الجنونية مثلا التي ظهرت قبل التحرير كان خبر سرقة التربة ، مقاولون صهاينة يعبرون الحدود و يحاولون تحميل شاحنات من التربة الخصبة إلى داخل فلسطين بهدف تصحير مساحات كبيرة من القرى ، طبعا هذه الفكرة البائسة لم تكتمل لأن محركها هو الحقد و لا امكانية لاستفادتهم منها .