A medical referral for treatment abroad offers only dark uncertainty, since just a small percentage of cancer patients have been able to leave Gaza.

I left Gaza to become a doctor, but it is taking a huge emotional toll.

Heba prayed that she would not be separated from her children if fate chose to take them; that prayer was granted.

Losing a mother is not a fleeting moment; it is a lifetime of wandering, searching for a shadow that will never return.

Umm Mohammad, a wife and mother of five sons, is all alone, engulfed in the grief of loss and longing.

Father, mother, brother, sister-in-law taken from him — Sa’aed Meqdad is no longer the same person he was before the war.

The streets are not quiet for long.