Ahmed Abu Alreish is 93 years old and I joined him to harvest olives from his land. I returned home with a bottle of olive oil which carries some of Ahmed’s stories about Palestine. That night, I assembled my siblings under the olive tree beneath my window, and I poured everything I heard from Ahmed into their ears. 

Thousands of stories are out there are waiting to be told. Thousands of agonies are screaming to be heard. Every Palestinian story is worth being told.

“Israel never misses a chance to ruin Gaza’s mornings.” Israeli drones are an ever present part of life in Gaza, and serve as a trigger for painful memories of war.

Noura Selmi recounts the nightmares that have plagued her since the fighting ended in Gaza. “The ceasefire was declared and life is trying to be normal again,” Selmi writes. “Unfortunately, the rockets are still following me in my sleep.”