Mel’s Reviews > Letters From Gaza: Post October 2023, the first collection of in-the-moment reflections from the people of Gaza; written from the vortex of turmoil > Status Update

"The thing I fear most is that everything will come to seem like normal events, and that it will become normal to bomb a house, and the abnormal thing would just be not giving a warning in advance. It will become normal for a child to die, whereas the abnormal thing would be that he died screaming, as well as many other things that can’t be covered in a single text."

"I am searching for the meaning of our lives— of life— in war. Nothing has any meaning except imagining what will happen to us and our bodies when the bombs fall. How will we die? In one piece, two pieces… three? Will we be just body parts? Where will our blood splatter? How does death look like at that moment?"

"The whole world knows little of this struggle, except for a few stolen photos and scenes of suffering. The world thinks we’ve gotten used to it, that we’ve learnt to cope with the deprivation of life’s necessities by finding primitive alternatives. This perception allows the world to rid itself of guilt about Gaza, convincing itself with fantasies of heroism and the myth of enduring hardships."