In the rest of the world, marrying means beginning a happy and secure new chapter. For Gazans, every month is a continuation of grief and instability.

A mobile app payment system is a strange contradiction to the primitive way we are still forced to live after the ‘ceasefire.’

My family refused to leave Gaza City until a terrifying new weapon forced us to evacuate.

A birthday celebration for my sister is one modest example of how life endures among broken streets and destroyed structures.

War has shaped our choices of career so we can rebuild Gaza.

From the moment they are born, Palestinians in Gaza wait for the inevitability of death.

Newton’s law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed, but this law does not apply in Gaza.

The cruelest part is never knowing when the warnings are real.

For Israel, the food airdrop is not a humanitarian consideration. It is a means of control and humiliation.

Even being paralyzed has not dented Sarah’s determination to serve others by entering the medical profession.

Al-Baqa Café provided respite from the war until Israel targeted it and turned it into a scene of carnage.

‘Inside me, it felt like someone had shut off all the light,’ Abeer told me. ‘That was when I met Fidaa Hijazi.’