I woke up that day to the grim feeling in my stomach having heard airstrikes from outside my bedroom window. I got scared and my mother tried to reassure me that they are resistance rockets firing into the air but they honestly felt like Israeli strikes to me. Mohammed and my mum were feeling stressed…

Mohammed and I travelled from the UK to Gaza this September to reconnect with our parents that we haven’t seen in such a long time. The day we crossed the Palestinian Rafah border I have been welcomed by my father, who took us home to ‘Burj Zahret Al Madaen’.  Going back to visit My homeland Palestine  felt…