“We no longer know what to save first. Everything is essential and everything is soaked,” Afnan said. Standing was exhausting, sitting was impossible, and nothing warmed the body except movement, but there was not even enough space to move.”

“The psychological trauma is just as real for animals as it is for people. Many cats shake uncontrollably after airstrikes. Some lose their appetite for days. They develop symptoms just like humans under extreme stress.”

When I finally reached the hotel, I felt life again: electricity, lit streets, unlimited water, and all kinds of food … But I could barely eat…The guilt of having all this while my family had nothing was unbearable.

“We lived three months in constant fear; we slept dressed, ready to run.” Mohammed stopped counting the displacements. “We moved from east Gaza to the middle, then Rafah, then back again – more than ten times.”

When Jewish settlers bought land in Palestine, usually from absentee landlords, they denied Arabs access to grazing pastures and agricultural land, often mistreating them in the process, usually leading to clashes.

These moments were testaments to Dr. Refaat’s deep belief in intellectual courage: he wanted us to confront difficult texts, and to grow stronger through critical reading.

“Every second felt like an eternity, trapped between a mechanical eye watching us from the sky and the suffocating smoke closing in from every direction.”

The names of new borns are written in the population registry, then erased shortly after they are born, rewritten as martyrs.

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.”

She knows the hum of drones more than the tune of a lullaby. She has learned to run when the ground shakes….“I want balloons, Mama… and no planes.”

To Ms. Ghada, who planted hope and saw in me a student worth listening to, you will never be forgotten. Your voice echoes in every word I write today.

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.

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.”

One of the parents added: “He comes back singing songs. He draws pictures. He tells me about the games. At home, he had no energy. Marah Kindergarten gives him life again.”

“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.”

As the hours passed, snippets of news suggested positive developments, but there was still a lot of uncertainty. Then, at around 2 a.m., there it was: “The ceasefire will take effect at noon today!” a Telegram message read.

Every day, Aldalee wakes up at 7 A.M. He rides his bicycle, sometimes for ten hours straight, to deliver aid to different parts of Gaza, bought with donations from across the world through his Instagram account…

We stayed there for about 18 hours, not knowing what would happen to us. No contact with our families or anyone. We were exhausted, sitting on the ground, packed together. No food. No water. We were drained

The Zionist leadership opted not for Jewish prosperity but for Jewish suffering in which child holocaust survivors served as sacrificial lambs on the altar of Zionism.

I am writing this not only to tell you Gaza is suffering. I write to give a second life to those that have been martyred.