Status Updates From Displaced in Gaza: Stories ...

"I searched for my daughters for a long time, lifting rubble and stones with my hands. I was injured and couldn’t see well....

We searched for Amar and Suwar but couldn’t find them. After a long search, we found them far from the house. The occupation’s rockets had thrown them onto the street due to the intensity of the bombing, and they were martyred instantly. I spoke to them, but they didn’t respond."

"...We are the indigenous people of the land, and we will never leave our land, no matter what happens. I hope this unjust war stops, and I can return to my occupied town of Julis before I die. This was my dream when I was a child, and it is still my dream as an elderly man. If I cannot live to see it fulfilled, my grandchildren will achieve it soon."

"The occupation forces stormed the house of my cousin Mukhtar Abu Kaed in November 2023 and arrested him, along with many of his sons and neighbours. The occupation used my elderly cousin as a human shield, parading him around the neighbourhoods of Gaza City. These scenes remind us of the Nakba. Generations have changed, but the Israeli criminal mentality remains the same."

"I lived through the 1948 war, the 1956 war, the occupation of the Gaza Strip, the Naksa of 1967, the 1973 war, the first Intifada in 1987, the second Intifada in 2000, the 2006 war, the 2008/2009 war, the 2012 war, the 2014 war, the 2021 war, and many major Israeli attacks during its occupation of Palestine. I also lived through this war in 2023/2024, but this war is unprecedented."

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"We couldn’t find enough space in the cemetery to bury my mother, so we dug up my grandmother’s grave and buried my mother in the same grave."

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"I searched for my husband until one of the other displaced people informed me that he had been martyred by a gunshot from the Israeli tanks on the school roof. [...] I was shocked by the scene I saw: my husband lying on the school roof amid a large pool of blood, lifeless, shot by an Israeli sniper."