Many in Gaza have had their houses destroyed multiple times during Israeli attacks over the last 15 years. Some families still in debt from rebuilding their home the first time, now find themselves having to rebuild again.
The UN’s World Food Program has provided food aid to 8,000 families in Gaza suffering from food insecurity, but is now suspending support due to budget cuts. As a result, many families in Gaza will go hungry.
Gaza’s vibrant culinary traditions are being warped by the Israeli blockade, and the seafood that used to be the product of cultural exchange across the Mediterranean is now changing to adapt to Israeli restrictions.
Here in Gaza, the people who are not killed when their homes are turned into rubble by Israeli bombs are called ‘survivors’. But in reality, they cannot really be called such. How can you be a survivor if you have lost everything?
Palestinians in Gaza had a message for Israel following the settler Flag March in Jerusalem: “You raised your flag in Sinai, and you left. You raised your flag in the Gaza settlements, and you left. Soon you will leave our lands too.”
The five-day Israeli assault on Gaza killed 33 people. The majority of them were civilians, six of them children. But for Israel, they are simply “collateral damage.”
75 years after their displacement, refugees in Gaza are preserving their cultural heritage through folklore and song. These songs tell a story of resistance and longing for Palestine.
The younger generation of Palestinian refugees in Gaza carry memories of their original villages, even though they’ve never been to them. 75 years after the Nakba, they still dream of return.
The only possible outcome of the recent Israeli airstrikes on residential sites in Gaza was a massacre, but Israel conducted them anyway. The delayed response from resistance factions might signal new resistance tactics.
The Palestinian resistance in Gaza is responding to Israel’s killing of Khader Adnan while he was on hunger strike, launching 70 rockets into Israel. The Israeli response of bombardment has been swift, already killing a Palestinian in northern Gaza.