For nine days, Fatima Abu Khammash searched for her missing son across Gaza’s Israeli-controlled zone. When they refused to hand over his body, she crossed the line herself, finding a mother’s uneasy peace in what she carried back.

Hamas dissolved its government in Gaza to remove Israel’s pretexts for delaying reconstruction and withdrawal. But Israel is now doubling down on a demand for full disarmament as a precondition, a condition designed to be impossible to meet.

I am a journalist from Gaza, and I have documented loss so relentlessly that I have wondered where all that grief goes. I now know it never disappears. It might feel gone, but then one story comes along and unlocks everything that came before it.

I have worked as a journalist in Gaza for nearly a decade, and I believe the Committee to Protect Journalists’ decision to remove the names of Palestinians killed while reporting from its records is yet another attempt to silence Gaza. It will fail.

Diana Abu Daraz and her 1-year-old daughter, Siwar, were killed in an Israeli strike on the Mawasi “safe zone” in Khan Younis. Survivors say the Israeli army didn’t wait after giving them notice of the strike, dropping bombs on the tent city.

For decades, the General Secondary Education Examination, or “Tawjihi,” was one of Gaza’s most significant milestones. But now, for the third year, students are taking their exams with no classrooms, no reliable electricity, and barely enough food.

Every day that I report on Gaza, Gaza reports back to me. Its people, its streets, its memories, and its wounds — they all remind me that while I may be far from the land, the land has never been far from me.

Before the genocide, Gaza’s residents carried their TVs into the streets to watch the World Cup with their neighbors. Today, following a match requires electricity that many don’t have, and money that most people can’t afford.

Former detainees who spent time with the prominent Gaza doctor before his transfer to solitary confinement describe systematic beatings, dog attacks, and deliberate medical neglect, warning he may not survive.

Israeli soldiers shot three-year-old Rayyan Abu al-Ajeen in his father’s arms and mocked his father’s pleas as he cried for his dying son. The father says they were in the part of Gaza designated as “safe” for civilians during the “ceasefire.”