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While Israel’s goals in Lebanon keep changing, as do its tactics, allies and adversaries, the drive to occupy, annex, and control it has remained unchanged. This is a brief history of Israel’s domination of Lebanon.

Children’s toys have become almost nonexistent in Gaza, as the Israeli occupation has prevented their entry … [a small doll] cost around 115 Israeli shekels [USD $38]. When I heard the price, I kept walking with my parents, because I knew my family could not afford that much for a doll.”

Two months before the genocide began in October 2023, Ouda made a decisive shift. She pursued her dream of fashion designing and launched her own line of clothes, Reno Collection … but as daily life collapsed, her project stopped entirely. “There was no room to think about dreams,” she said. “Only about staying alive.” 

“One day in January, a young boy, Anas, just five years old, came to buy a biscuit. It cost three shekels, but he had only one. After a brief pause, Seba smiled and sold him the biscuit for the single shekel he carried, watching him walk away clutching it with quiet satisfaction.”