‘We will spare no effort to bring them all out alive’

A father urges on rescuers to find his wife and two children trapped in the rubble after an Israeli airstrike.

A trip of grief

I’m 373 mournful kilometers away from home, and Google can’t find the way back. But I am confident I will return one day.

‘The life we live now is devoid of meaning’

Israel turned a beautiful existence into a charred nightmare.

No one is shouting ‘April Fools’ Day’ in Gaza

The bombing, destruction, and displacement families in Gaza are enduring is no joke.

Leaving Gaza: a journey of survival and longing

A new life in Qatar comes with guilt, an inability to enjoy simple things, mourning for what’s lost — and also hope.

When school shelters are targeted

A family took refuge in Kuwait School, then Israeli shelling destroyed nearly everything. Yet dreams survive.

Echos of our lost home in Gaza

Israeli F-16 rockets destroyed a four-generation property that was once alive with family gatherings.

Mahmoud

Mahmoud Jamal Abuzarifa was the pillar of support not only for his immediate family but for many others.

A promise of safe passage, a sea of white flags — and a bullet

A young man and his family, seeking to escape death in north Gaza, meet death on the road.

Nest of diaspora

In a corner of our rented third-story house / Clay stuck to straw / A home for a future family

Essa, May 15

If it were not for the Nakba, / May 15 might be a sunny day.

Sons of the sea

They said that the sea has been in mourning /  Since he sensed the blood of a martyred boy on his waves.

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