My brother’s Gaza classroom doubles as a shelter
He receives his math lesson in a space where students and displaced families are crowded together.
- Gaza Strip
Shahed AbuAlShaikh is a senior at the Islamic University studying English translation. Her dream is to work with an international organization.
She says, “I believe that every quote I read touches me somehow. I love Gaza and love that I was born in Gaza.”
Current as of February 2025
He receives his math lesson in a space where students and displaced families are crowded together.
Medicines in Gaza are still in short supply and expensive, due to ongoing restrictions imposed by the Israeli occupation on the entry of essential drugs.
There is no more strawberry crops, no more Strawberry City. Israel has completely destroyed them.
My mother screamed with joy, my father said “Alhamdulillah,” and we children clapped and danced for the sake of a single small cylinder.
A mobile app payment system is a strange contradiction to the primitive way we are still forced to live after the ‘ceasefire.’
My dream of becoming a teaching assistant has been supplanted by something much less meaningful.
To be a woman in war means to lose much of your femininity in order to survive.
It should not have been necessary for my brother to risk death at Gaza’s aid trucks to get food.
Poverty first deprived Hanan of her husband, and then the war on Gaza made their separation indefinite.
A large portion of our desperately needed income is going to waste because of the high payment traders charge for cash.
Hadel had dreamed for years of visiting her family in Gaza, but her dream became a nightmare.
Young twins are consigned to a life of disability when the only specialist hospital in Gaza is destroyed.