I saw my cousin Fatima in early November.
I visited her and her three children in the UN school in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip where the family has been staying for over a year.
I went just two weeks after the school had been bombed in an Israeli attack on 24 October. She and her children – Omar, 3, Ahmed, 6, and Mariam, 8 – escaped unharmed, but their tent and what little belongings they had were destroyed and scattered.
The attack, Fatima, 35, told me, almost broke her, a woman who has survived for over a year as a single parent to three young children after being forcibly displaced from her home in Jabaliya in October 2023.
“I wanted to cry. I wanted to scream. I just couldn’t take it any more,” she said. ….more
