Life rebuilt from fragments: three stories of survival in Gaza
People have adapted using improvised tools, repaired household items, and makeshift solutions to ordinary routines.
- Gaza Strip
Khaled Al-Qershali is an ambitious Palestinian writer, poet, and journalist from Gaza. He holds a B.A. in English language and literature from the Islamic University of Gaza.
Khaled was a student of Dr. Refaat Alareer, whom Israel killed. For Khaled, writing is a mean to express what he feels and believes and to portray a minute image of what he is going through and experiencing.
Current as of August 2026
People have adapted using improvised tools, repaired household items, and makeshift solutions to ordinary routines.
Basic necessities and life-saving medicine remain scarce, but mobile phones and luxury goods that no one can afford are available.
From the moment they are born, Palestinians in Gaza wait for the inevitability of death.
Widespread hunger in Gaza affects pets as well as people and leads to disturbing changes in behavior.
Displaced people of Gaza find different ways to earn a living in their struggle to survive the Israeli genocide.
Two years in a row, we have struggled to enjoy the holy month despite displacement, scarcity, and disrupted traditions.
Overpriced diapers, infant formula, and ointments in the Gaza Strip created miserable conditions for the little ones.
My group friendship of four men was torn apart by the war, but the surviving three remain in touch.