‘From now on, you are another person’

Two theatre colleagues shared many dreams. But since Oct. 7, none have been completed, and all has changed.

Ala’a Sbaih
One Gazan’s tale of loss and resilience

My friends and I had premonitions that something terrible would happen. Little did we know how genocidal it would be.

Haya Ihab Sisalem
My one dream: Put an end to these massacres

A volunteer doctor in Gaza deals with the traumas of her patients along with her own.

Nada Almadhoun
‘The places are demolished, and the comrades have been killed’

Our homes and dreams are shattered, we are left with our lives in fragments, and we hang by a thread to hope.

Dana Besaiso
Our home in Gaza has become a pile of ash

In a second everything can change, and it did for my family when Israel bombed our neighborhood.

Weam Abu Daqqa
Giving birth during war: ‘I could hear my flesh ripping’

Women in Gaza are experiencing miscarriages, births without anesthesia, preterm deliveries, and neonatal deaths.

Eman Ashraf Alhaj Ali
Ramadan continues, despite sorrow and hunger

In the Rafah displacement camps, people improvise to find joy and tranquility during the holiest of Muslim holidays.

Faress Arafat
‘It’s like doctors are telling us to just watch her die and do nothing’

Thousands of cancer patients in besieged Gaza need but cannot get treatment. Here are three of their stories.

Shahd Safi
Giving birth during war: ‘I could hear my flesh ripping’

Women in Gaza are experiencing miscarriages, births without anesthesia, preterm deliveries, and neonatal deaths.

Eman Ashraf Alhaj Ali
What If?

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

Basman Derawi
A child should never die

A child should play, laugh, giggle / Call mom to make breakfast / Throw himself into grandfather’s arms / And live

Salaheldin Eleyan
God calls me again

I ask God, How are you? / I am sad, of course, he says.

Basman Derawi

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