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A Palestinian man sits on the rubble of his destroyed house after returning home to the Tufah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City on August 31, 2014. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images)

When it rains, it pours—inside Zoher Alsayd’s living room, kitchen and bedroom to be exact. Like many Palestinians, the former house painter’s home was wrecked by airstrikes during the latest escalation between Israel and Hamas earlier this year in May. And this was not the first time his roof was destroyed. Alsayd belongs to a growing group of Palestinians whose homes were damaged to the point of becoming uninhabitable, not once, but multiple times over the course of these four conflicts with Israel over the last 13 years.

The Maldive Gaza Restaurant and Cafe, shortly after opening in August 2020. (Photo: Reuters)

After two and a half years of living abroad, Abdelrahman Abuabed decided it was time to visit his family. He arrived in Gaza days before the May escalation between Hamas and Israel. “A terror-stricken burden of waiting for the next massacre looms over every house in Gaza and an insane feeling of wishing it will be far away from you and from anyone you know.”

Palestinians clash with Israeli forces following a demonstration along the Israel-Gaza border, east of Gaza City, denouncing the Israeli siege of the Palestinian strip, on August 21, 2021. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA images)

Palestinians plan to continue protests at the fence separating Gaza and Israel this week, following clashes over the weekend where 24 protesters were wounded. “We can’t stand doing nothing while our people are suffering death due to Israeli siege,” Talal Abu Zarifa explained.

An Israeli drone is seen over Gaza city on Oct. 31, 2011. (Photo: Majdi Fathi/APA Images)

“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.

Palestinians enjoy their time at the beach of Gaza sea during a hot day on August 6, 2021. The beach is one of the few open public spaces in this densely populated city. (Photo: Mohammed Dahman/APA Images)

A new song celebrates the Sumud (steadfastness) of the people of historic Palestine following the latest horrific Israeli onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip.