We have heard a lot about the ethnic cleansing of 1947-49 and the bitter experience of displacement for two-thirds of the Palestinian people during the Nakba that has been well documented by now.
In raw numbers, Israel’s genocide over the past nearly nine months has displaced more people, an estimated 1 million as compared to the 850,000 back then, even if as a percentage of the total population, it is still less.
But iIt has happened to my family, despite our desire to stay in our home in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip.
On 7 October, six houses in the neighborhood were bombed, including those of friends. They had left the area before I could say goodbye to them. (I have to believe that I will see them again when the genocide ends. But we thought it would have been over by now.) …..more
