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emerging writers from Palestine tell their stories and advocate for their human rights

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Tag: disability/injury/disease

Siblings (two male and two female).

Somaia survives 21 days in the rubble of her home

A young woman survives both a missile attack that killed family members and a weeks-long siege of her neighborhood.
Aya Al-Hattab
  • Gaza Strip
Boy with amputated leg, with doctor in medical facility.

He lost his leg but not his dreams

My nephew Hamood looks beyond his amputation and other unrepaired injuries, and toward the day when he can play soccer again.
Yusuf El-Mobayed
    A nurse treats a boy's leg injury.

    Behind the scenes, there’s another war

    Healthcare workers in Gaza fight against immense challenges to care for the injured.
    Faress Arafat
      Israeli soldiers guarding undressed Palestinians held at Yarmouk Stadium for interrogation.

      My Black Friday

      A survivor recounts his interrogation and torture in a round-up of Palestinians at Yarmouk Stadium.
      Yusuf El-Mobayed
        People sitting on chairs in the sand outside medical tent in Gaza.

        Gaza sets up health clinics to treat patients in a health crisis

        Makeshift medical hubs are insufficient to treat everyone with an injury, chronic condition, disease, or other ailment.
        Faress Arafat
          Children on a ferris wheel in a dystopian setting in Gaza.

          Gaza is the new Panem

          The children of Gaza are not characters in “The Hunger Games” and this war is not intended to amuse you.
          Abdallah Wael Nasrallah
            Injured boy with bandaged shoulder and arm.

            Amir faces death in Gaza not once, but twice

            A boy injured by Israeli bombs asks, ‘Is this my fault? Am I forbidden from playing and having fun?’
            Maysa Zaid Abu Aisha
              An apartment building destroyed by an Israeli bombing.

              It’s always darkest before dawn

              In his search for his family amidst the rubble, a man found solace in the kindness of those who aided him.
              Hamza N. Ibrahim
                Unsmiling woman in hijab with palestinian flag and barbed wire in background.

                The scar of a zombie

                An injury from an Israeli bombing injured the body and wounded the heart.
                Haneen Alisawi
                  A bag of gluten-free flour.

                  Celiac patients caught between war and hunger

                  People with wheat allergy doubly suffer from the immense shortage of food in Gaza.
                  Hadeel Awad
                    12-year-old girl in hospital bed.

                    Childhood paused

                    Forced to flee, then wounded by shrapnel, a 12-year-old girl in Gaza wonders why she has to live with such pain.
                    Israa Mohammed Jamal
                      Sick woman with eyes closed.

                      ‘It’s like doctors are telling us to just watch her die and do nothing’

                      Thousands of cancer patients in besieged Gaza need but cannot get treatment. Here are three of their stories.
                      Shahd Safi