Love amidst chaos

Malik and Hind’s love story takes an unexpected turn amidst the turmoil of war in Gaza.

Confessions of a human animal: entry #1

This Gazan wanted to die, but the last words of Dr. Refaat Alareer changed her mind.

Friendship is nowhere to be found

A group of four best friends is torn apart by the war in Gaza.

Starting college when there are no colleges left

How do you study in the rubble of destroyed buildings? How do you concentrate when classmates are killed?

‘The hope of returning to our home lingers like a black ghost’

Multiple displacements make the yearning for home even stronger.

We left our home, but our memories remain behind

A family in Gaza City endures more than a month of terrifying bombardment before finally deciding to evacuate.

Echos of our lost home in Gaza

Israeli F-16 rockets destroyed a four-generation property that was once alive with family gatherings.

Mahmoud

Mahmoud Jamal Abuzarifa was the pillar of support not only for his immediate family but for many others.

A promise of safe passage, a sea of white flags — and a bullet

A young man and his family, seeking to escape death in north Gaza, meet death on the road.

If I must live

If I must live / You must see / The resistant one you taught me to be

Remembering Samar

“I wish I were that drowning sun,” / you told me, / “tightly embracing the horizon, / flying into the abyss of freedom.”

What if?

Pages of history drip with my blood / and my grandfather’s tears / for his murdered olive tree.

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