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Hani Qarmoot Hani Qarmoot

Taking the Tawjihi exam under Israeli bombardment

When the attacks resumed, her home was bombed, and her books vanished under debris…. "I used to study in my room with colored pens and sticky notes," she said. "Now, I write on scraps of paper from aid boxes.”

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Zachary Foster Zachary Foster

The eugenist history of the Zionist movement

The Zionist leadership rejected persecuted, disabled, destitute, sick, diseased and elderly Jews because they were persecuted, disabled, destitute, sick, diseased and elderly. This is the eugenist history of Zionism, in brief.

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Odey Sameer Al-Qatta’ Odey Sameer Al-Qatta’

How the genocide has impacted fatherhood in Gaza

Abu Waleed is a 42-year-old father of four who lost both legs in an airstrike while waiting for flour in an aid distribution site. “My youngest daughter, who is 8, thinks I’m hiding my legs for fun,” he told Palestine Nexus. “I can’t bring myself to tell her this is forever.”

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Zachary Foster Zachary Foster

Palestine Nexus writers reflect on two years of genocide

“Every story I write feels like a battle for survival. I’ve written from the ruins, from tents, from places where electricity and the internet are miracles. Sometimes, I walked for hours under the burning sun because transportation was too expensive, and because silence was not an option.”

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Hadi Almaqadma Hadi Almaqadma

Life in Gaza for children with Cerebral Palsy

When the war forced our family to flee from Al-twam in northern Gaza to Khanyounis in the south, I carried him on my shoulders and walked over 13 kilometers, under bombing, fear, and thirst…”

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Rama Hussain Rama Hussain

“I just wanted flour for my family”

“Suddenly, the Israeli soldiers opened heavy fire on us. People ran in every direction, but I couldn’t give up. I needed that flour.” … “I saw the final trailer coming. I pushed forward, fighting my way through the crowd…

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Yahya Thaher Yahya Thaher

The quiet resilience of mothers in Gaza

She says, “We’ll bake bread tomorrow,” even when there is no flour. She says, “The windows are broken because we wanted more air,” even though that’s not why. She says, “The baby is sleeping,” even though the baby is gone.

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Hani Qarmoot Hani Qarmoot

Reflections of a young journalist in Gaza

I saw the bodies of the slain journalists brought to Al-Shifa Hospital on August 11. The air inside was thick with grief as their bodies lay side by side, marked by the brutal violence they had been reporting on. Their features still bore the resolve that characterized their resilience

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Khaled Al-Qershali Khaled Al-Qershali

How Israel Has Created a Cash Crisis in Gaza

"Whenever I transfer $100 from PayPal to a Bank of Palestine account, 14% of that money is paid to the owner of the PayPal account," Al-Ghoz told Palestine Nexus. To withdraw the remaining $86 in cash, he has to pay a commission of 40% to cash brokers in Gaza….”

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Sumaya Yasser Saleh Sumaya Yasser Saleh

How Gaza become a mass, unmarked grave

As they were digging, a whistling noise veered past us … A shell landed just meters away between us and the grave diggers. They ran without looking back. I saw the body, still halfway out of the grave, as if it, too, realized it would not be permitted to rest.

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