The survivors of Israel’s recent onslaught on Gaza were spared death but now grapple with what remains of their life after the war. Here are some of their stories.
While 2022 marks 15 years since the siege of Gaza officially began, the strangling of the Gaza Strip by the Zionist state started long before that.
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During the three-day Israeli assault on Gaza between August 5 – 7, 2022, 49 Palestinians were killed, including 17 children. The Mondoweiss team identified every airstrike conducted by Israeli forces and undertook a project to memorialize the Palestinians who were killed, including interviewing many of their families. The following is a profile of each person killed during the Israeli offensive.
Ahmad Ayyad was on his way to work in Israel to help his family in Gaza when he was attacked by Israeli soldiers and beaten to death. His widow Nour Ayyad tells Mondoweiss, “Israel is turning our kids into orphans and planting pain in every house.”
After 18 years of seeking justice for their murdered 13-year-old daughter, who was killed during the Second Intifada by an Israeli soldier, the Israeli Supreme Court dismissed the Al-Homs family’s case against their daughter’s murderer in July. “The Israeli judiciary offers no justice at all,” Eman’s father, 68-year-old Sameer Al-Homs, tells Mondoweiss.
“There is not a single day that passes without reading or watching Israelis kill Palestinians,” Eman Hamed, a mother of four, tells Tareq Hajjaj in a Gaza city park. “My 77-year-old mother always says that she has lived her entire life in wars. I was born in wars as well, and my four kids were born in war, so how could I say that the war ended?”
Amid the latest Israeli onslaught, Gaza’s sole power plant shut down after Israel closed its border crossings with the besieged strip and cut off its fuel supply. “The state of electricity in Gaza is already terrible without the continuous bombardment, and with it darkness becomes another kind of war,” Gaza resident Khaled Hassan tells Mondoweiss.
Twelve Palestinians, including a five-year-old child, were killed after Israeli air strikes targeted a civilian tower and several locations in the besieged Gaza Strip.
For children, home is often the safest place on earth. But every few years in Gaza children’s homes are pushed into the front lines of war.