Doreen’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

I have a story to tell about the genocide: how it destroyed all the worlds we knew inside the Gaza Strip; how by managing our lives we built temporary lives while the genocide continued; and how we will always choose life and hope for the end of the war and the return of life. ——Mahmoud Alshaer

Even his mother’s “just a couple of days” and “we will be back” reminded him of his ancestors’ dreams that never came true. —Haida al-Ghazali

Endless murmurs and thoughts circled in my head about dying faces in living bodies that moved amid shattered scenes of devastation. These are the faces of Gaza. —Mohammad Al-Zaqzooq

To think of eating became a crime, a transgression for which children, women, and even the defeated elderly paid the toll.

In the daytime we run after a whole set of problems that begin with water and end with a piece of bread dipped in exhaustion. —Doha Kahlout