mobanmarketTwenty-six-year-old aid worker and activist Kayla Mueller, whose death was confirmed on Tuesday by the White House, was honored this week for—among her many humanitarian contributions—her work in solidarity with Palestinians resisting occupation.
Mueller was working with Syrian refugees when she was kidnapped in August 2013 by ISIS combatants after leaving a Spanish Doctors Without Borders hospital in Aleppo. ISIS claimed last week that Mueller was killed in a Jordanian bombing within Syria, and U.S. officials say they have not yet confirmed this account.
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“We are heartbroken to share that we’ve received confirmation that Kayla Jean Mueller, has lost her life,” declared her parents, Carl and Marsha Mueller, in a statement released Tuesday. “Kayla was a compassionate and devoted humanitarian. She dedicated the whole of her young life to helping those in need from freedom, justice and peace.
“Our hearts are breaking for our only daughter, but we will continue in peace, dignity and love for her,” they continued.
The Muellers, further, released a letter written by Kayla from ISIS captivity in the spring of 2014. It reads, “I have been shown darkness, light + have learned that even in prison, one can be free.”
Kayla Mueller, whose humanitarian work has taken her to northern India, Palestine, and Turkey, as well as women’s shelters and HIV/AIDS clinics in Arizona, spent time in 2010 working with the International Solidarity Movement, which describes itself as “a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the long-entrenched and systematic oppression and dispossession of the Palestinian population, using non-violent, direct-action methods and principles.”
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