‘The hope of returning to our home lingers like a black ghost’

Multiple displacements make the yearning for home even stronger.

We left our home, but our memories remain behind

A family in Gaza City endures more than a month of terrifying bombardment before finally deciding to evacuate.

A mother’s journey through war

How do you keep your children safe from bombs and missiles and also from the knowledge that they are facing genocide?

Naked, afraid … and resilient

Five lunar cycles since the attack began. Deep in my chest, the cold stings. Is it the sea breeze or is it loss?

From storyteller to silent witness

What is the point of sharing with the world what is happening inside Gaza, when nothing changes?

The first two weeks of this war

Israel’s war on Gaza, which has now lasted six months, was unendurable from the beginning.

Echos of our lost home in Gaza

Israeli F-16 rockets destroyed a four-generation property that was once alive with family gatherings.

Mahmoud

Mahmoud Jamal Abuzarifa was the pillar of support not only for his immediate family but for many others.

A promise of safe passage, a sea of white flags — and a bullet

A young man and his family, seeking to escape death in north Gaza, meet death on the road.

If I must live

If I must live / You must see / The resistant one you taught me to be

Remembering Samar

“I wish I were that drowning sun,” / you told me, / “tightly embracing the horizon, / flying into the abyss of freedom.”

What if?

Pages of history drip with my blood / and my grandfather’s tears / for his murdered olive tree.

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