
The suffering of hypertension patients in Gaza
Medication and food shortages, a destroyed healthcare system, plus extreme stress, create the conditions for slow death by the “silent killer.”
- Gaza Strip

Medication and food shortages, a destroyed healthcare system, plus extreme stress, create the conditions for slow death by the “silent killer.”

My cousin Malak has experienced displacement and terrible family loss. Now as she mourns, she longs for someone to listen to her story.

The captain of Gaza’s national volleyball team and father of four was killed by Israel at an aid distribution site.

We seek refreshment and escape along the coastline, but Israel forbids us from entering the water and drops bombs along the shore.

Stolen childhoods remain lost forever, and broken souls carry wounds that time cannot heal.

For my brother Hassan, the sounds of war are a full-scale physical and psychological assault, trapping him in a state of constant terror.

We came to Egypt fleeing death, but in exile suffering continues to chase us and we face an uncertain future.

My grandfather planted a tree in 1998 that, decades later, saved his grandchildren from despair.

Mohammad Yousef Al-Najjar is determined to become a diplomat or an international legal advocate.

Israel has bulldozed the fertile area of Mirage, destroying Gaza’s ability to feed itself and sentencing the people to a slow death.

Israel has killed more journalists and media workers than were killed in both world wars plus the wars in Vietnam, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan.

Refaat Ibrahim’s experience exemplifies the suffering of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention, which the world’s silence enables.