11/4/2024 Eid To celebrate or not to celebrate Eid is upon us and after the 7 aid worker incident in rafah the Israeli troops have withdrawn from Khan younis after the torturing and continuous bombardment of civilians and innocent people. The kids in southern parts of Gaza are very relieved and they are deseprate…
I could not write during the months of January February and march due to having a massive depressive episode accompanied with a writer’s block. The events have filled me with sadness and inability to comprehend the shock and the grief that i’m going through. However my friends and my family and my partner were always…
4/11/2023 Nouran is an old friend of mine who came for a visit to cheer me up. so I had a cup of tea with her whilst remembering all my childhood memories, she kept reminding me how much of a strong Palestinian woman I am which I found very kind of her to do so.…
11/10/2023-15/10/2023 We stayed with my auntie Noha for a short time whilst the attacks continued on Gaza but my stress levels weren’t getting any better so me and Mama decided to move to a flat near my cousin’s house where we’d spend time just dealing with issues. It is just shocking that churches and hospitals…
We reached Cairo physically safe however both my mum and I were thinking about Gaza all the time. I was mainly thinking about my brother mohammed who was sheltering with my father and two half siblings in al-Mashtal hotel. My brother and my father had to flee from the north of Gaza to the south,…
I would just want to share this striking statstic with you about The children of Gaza which has been the reality for 2.2 million children even before the break out of the 7th of October has took place. The average five year old in Gaza in 2005 have witnessed 7 successive assaults by the Israeli army,…
It’s a disgrace that this genocide is being watched by the rest of the world without being ceased to let humanitarian aid in. The main thing I want to share is that I had to take a break from writing so that I can feel comptent enough to write again , I cant carry on…
In dire circumstances we all gather together to keep the family safe and to reassure each other. Mama’s hard attempts at securing a house for herself in the UK whilst the Genocide events were still ongoing was not an easy task and it happened by sheer luck. However, finding that house resulted in lots of…
Me and Mama took a taxi from the north of Gaza to the Rafah border where the journey took about 45 mins on Salah Al Deen street. Which was full of missiles in the sky and not knowing what kind of missiles they were. It has felt like the longest journey I have ever taken in…
We are in the North of Gaza near the sea. The three of us were terrified in that complex we fled to from our flat. We didnt know it was going to be a story where displacement starts. I hardly slept because of the sound of heavy bombs so I have hidden under a table.…