Despite the fact that I have survived so far, this genocidal war is killing my body and mind slowly.
It’s leaving me soulless, a mind full of fear but without hope or dreams or a future.
I have been separated from my husband Ahmad for five months. He decided to stay in the north, because he feared that Israel’s plan was to repeat the 1948 Nakba – when two-thirds of the Palestinian people were forced to flee never to be allowed home – empty Gaza and not let anyone return.
He is staying in his family’s home. The Israeli military burned and destroyed our home and memories. I’ve been forcibly displaced nine times. My father and brother were kidnapped by Israeli soldiers.
I live a daily nightmare of blood, murder and bombardment. I am raising my child alone in a tent on private land in al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis.
All this pressure is weakening my immunity. ….more
