Nour’s name means ‘light’ in Arabic — without him, our lives remain shrouded in darkness.

I’ve lost 60 family members in the last year, and I struggle to process how quickly everything has changed.

I thought I would be in the U.S. on a scholarship. Instead I was running for my life from yet another Israeli attack.

A youth-led organization provides support, empowerment, and reasons for hope to families displaced by the war on Gaza.

A family moves from home to a friend’s house, to a hospital, and back home again—but doesn’t feel safe anywhere.

Gazans without electricity or gas get creative so they can bake bread and heat water.

We are preparing for our forced emigration from Gaza to the Sinai Desert, or for our death. One or the other.

A deafening explosion jolted us. The world collapsed around me. “Am I dead?” I asked Mohammed, clinging to his hand.

Who, among the peoples of the world, truly comprehends the Palestinian plight?

Alaa al-Tahrawi, who died in Israel’s August 2022 attack on Gaza, was beloved by her son, husband, uncle, and many others.

Sorrow and depression are not proper guides to living—friends are.

During the war, I found solace in friendship.