
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.
- Gaza Strip

A young woman survives both a missile attack that killed family members and a weeks-long siege of her neighborhood.

Healthcare workers in Gaza fight against immense challenges to care for the injured.

A Gazan student defies war’s obstacles to chase her dream of studying medicine.

Harsh weather, inadequate shelter, and ongoing attacks create a dire situation that threatens our very survival.

I imagine our house under the wing of a dragon with all its warmth / Even if all that surrounds us is a tent.

Three children, three stories of childhood robbed.

The Omar Al-Mokhtar Street market is not the one we knew before the war; now it is a mirror reflecting our souls.

This heinous war has affected pets like my cat just as painfully and negatively as it has affected Palestinians.

I look at the sky and say / A year without you is a lifetime.

Our children don’t imagine monsters once a year on Halloween — they face them in real life, every day.

I stand at the edge of life / thin, like a knife / swinging between / present and past.

Families driven from their homes in the north were promised safe passage to the south; they were sent into a nightmare.