Gaza’s beaches have always been a haven for Gaza’s people.

In the long years of siege that came before last October, they were our vantage point from which we could see a world we weren’t allowed to visit, the promise of freedom for a territory imprisoned.

Since Israel’s genocide started, but especially since Israel’s invasion of Rafah back in May, the beaches have become even more important for tens of thousands of displaced people in Gaza.

People have pitched their tents in the sand in a desperate search for some safety.

Motaz Barzaq, who is displaced from the north, decided to go one step further.

Why not, he thought, build something a little more stable……more