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Palestinians walk past destruction following months of Israeli bombardment in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on November 19, 2024. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy / APA Images)

When the Gaza genocide began, I put my trust in God and dismissed fear altogether. But then, trapped under the rubble of my destroyed home, I felt true fear. And it hasn’t left me since.

A protester at Tehran University carries a picture of the dead Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Photo: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA)

On the martyrdom of Ismail Haniyeh as Iran inaugurated a new president, and the ways the Martyr may enable us to see a path forward to break a siege that stretches from Tehran to Gaza.

Palestinians check the damage following Israeli strikes in Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on November 17, 2024. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

Over the last year, I have lost many of my relatives and friends who have been victims of horrific Israeli attacks. Here are stories of four massacres that tore my life apart.

Palestinians wait to receive food distributed by an aid organization in Deir Al Balah, Gaza on November 18, 2024. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

It is a daily struggle for survival under the Israeli-imposed siege on Gaza. Families are surviving on scraps of bread and contaminated canned food, and my children dream of a simple chicken meal. In a land once full of life, only ashes remain.

Buildings destroyed during in Jabalia refugee camp, August 31, 2024. (Photo: Hadi Daoud/APA Images)

I grew up in Jabalia refugee camp, listening to my mother’s stories about its resistance during the First Intifada, its resistance fighters, and its stubborn defiance of the colonial regime. Today, Jabalia is my only hope.