After six months of writing about others’ displacement stories and the horrors they faced, I am now writing my own.
On 11 May, the war began for me, and I am now experiencing what seemingly everyone else in Gaza has experienced for the past eight months: constantly running for my life to survive nonstop Israeli bombings.
When Israeli occupation forces invaded Rafah at the beginning of May, my family and I were forcibly displaced to Khan Younis.
At first, we evacuated to a relative’s house, until Israeli leaflets fell on our neighborhood, ordering us to leave. The quadcopter shot randomly at houses to scare us off. ….more
