Even in areas like Rafah, where the Israeli ground invasion has not reached, Gaza’s society has been decimated. Its economy no longer exists and basic goods can only be found on the black market where they cost ten times their prewar price.
Survivors of Israel’s ground invasion in northern Gaza tell chilling stories of kidnappings, torture, and the rampant use of civilians as bait and human shields. The world still has no idea how inhumane Israel’s genocidal war really has been.
Israel’s genocidal war of expulsion is nothing like the people of Gaza have ever seen — not this generation, not their parents’ generation, and not the generation that survived the Nakba.
I did everything I could to throw my son Qais the birthday party he deserved, even after we witnessed a bloody massacre on the same day he turned 1.
Many in Gaza are faced with difficult choices that aren’t choices at all. We know that the price of our survival is flight, and the loss of our homeland. When the world calls this displacement “voluntary,” it makes a mockery of the term.
Our Nakba is being recorded by us in real-time for the entire world to see. Everyone can witness our slaughter and collective death. Our simple dream has been destroyed by Israel, for no greater sin than being born under occupation.
Multiple testimonies collected from Palestinians displaced from northern Gaza reveal the horrors of the Israeli army’s “safe passage” on Salah al-Din Street.
For the people of Gaza, the four-day truce has only afforded them the chance to fully comprehend what they went through: “Only today have we realized that they’re gone. Only today do we feel death’s presence here.”
Ayah Sha’ban was among 14 of her martyred family members in Gaza City. She was presumed dead and wrapped in a white shroud, but a security guard at Al-Shifa’ noticed her breathing and saved her. She still doesn’t know about her family’s fate.
As rain begins to fall on Gaza, one million displaced Palestinians are suffering from cold and lack of shelter, while few are able to enjoy the partial relief it provides amidst the water shortage imposed by Israel’s genocidal siege.