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Guardiola: Gaza victims are not dead but murdered, and not numbers
Spanish coach Pep Guardiola said in a video released by UNRWA Spain that Gaza’s victims “are not dead, they are murdered people” and “not numbers,” urging people to keep talking about Palestine and to support the agency.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said the victims of the war in Gaza “are not dead, they are murdered people. These are not numbers,” in a video released by the Spanish branch of UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.
“They are not collateral damage. They are girls and boys,” Guardiola said, describing them as lives with names, faces, families, dreams and memories, and warning that accepting language that hides the pain means beginning to lose our humanity.
“Silence today is a way of taking sides”
Saying the world is going through a very dark period of its history, Guardiola said the Israeli government had killed more than 74,000 people in Gaza. He also criticized the obstruction of humanitarian aid and home demolitions and forced displacement in the West Bank.
“Silence today is a way of taking sides. But we cannot look the other way,” he said, adding: “No people should spend entire generations proving their ability to endure suffering.”
Call to support UNRWA
Praising UNRWA’s more than 75 years of providing health care, education and protection to refugees, Guardiola ended his message: “Palestine matters, and Palestine needs justice and peace. Keep talking about Palestine. Keep defending humanity.” He urged those who can to support the agency so it can keep delivering aid.
Guardiola has spoken out on Gaza before. At a University of Manchester honorary degree ceremony in 2025, he said what is happening in Gaza “hurts my whole body,” and he wore a keffiyeh at a charity event in Spain in early 2026.
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