Journalist Islam Elkhaldy has been displaced five times during Israel’s yearlong genocide in Gaza.
Her home in the al-Thalathini area east of Gaza City was destroyed earlier in the war, and she is now in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis.
The area is not safe, she said, pointing out how it is regularly bombed and the displaced people there, risk being massacred in Israel’s indiscriminate violence.
Elkhaldy has worked for Palestinian and Arab news outlets, including Donia Al-Watan, Al-Araby al-Jadeed and Quds News Network. She said she loved writing humanitarian and success stories about people living under siege in Gaza.
But the attacks and forced displacements led Elkhaldy to put away her passion for reporting for now to take care of her children, Seba, 11, and Majd, 5.
She now instead sells sandwiches to other displaced people in the area to help her and her family survive.
This is not the first time she has turned her hand to cooking. ….more
