Under the roof of a small kiosk in front of a shelter for the displaced west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, three young men gathered one morning in July to prepare falafel and sell it to the displaced people around them.
Small falafel kiosks have sprung up all around Gaza over the past year to cater to the hundreds of thousands of displaced people. This one, though, gained fame – not just for its falafel, but for the story that unites the three young men who run it.
“A dentist, a lawyer and an accountant open a falafel stand,” could be the opening of a joke.
But it is a serious story of survival for three young men whose lives have changed beyond recognition under Israel’s year-long genocide in Gaza. ….more
