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Gazans live in inexorable pain with no pause and they are surrounded by death all the time.
Shahd Hassanin
- Gaza Strip
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Gazans live in inexorable pain with no pause and they are surrounded by death all the time.
Shahd Hassanin
- Gaza Strip
Bombs shook the olive trees as we harvested — but we kept harvesting.
Hend Salama Abo Helow
- Gaza Strip
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Day after day, the children would wait for me to open the book and transport them to another world.
Reem Sleem
- Gaza Strip
- Diaspora
A young man is distraught over the beloved horse he had to leave behind when he was displaced to southern Gaza.
Shahd Ahmad Alnaami
- Gaza Strip
‘No matter how much the occupation destroys, we will remain in Gaza and so will the olive trees.’
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So many of us still / hold our phones, read / your poems — not / losing hope.
Shahd Ahmad Alnaami
- Gaza Strip
Every day, the farmer counts his goats on the besieged farm. / He says he counts them to guard / against the dogs / that lurk.
