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I survived the Gaza genocide only to witness firsthand Western complicity

I was evacuated to France, where I saw the reason why the world is allowing my people to be slaughtered.

Police officers stand guard as youths take part in the occupation of a street in front of the building of the Sciences Po University in support of Palestinians in Gaza, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Paris, France, April 26, 2024. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

Fear is not a word that can describe what we feel in Gaza

The past three weeks since the ceasefire ended have been an endless horror story.

A Palestinian woman stands amid the devastation in the yard of a school, a day after it was hit by an Israeli strike, in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood in Gaza City on April 4, 2025. Gaza's civil defence agency said on April 3 that at least 31 people, including children, were killed in the Israeli strike on the school serving as a shelter for Palestinians displaced by the war. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Our ‘return’ to northern Gaza is not the end of exile

The ongoing Nakba will end only when the world decides to uphold our right of return.

A drone view shows Palestinians, who were forcibly displaced to the south of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army, making their way back to their homes in the north in January 2025

Why I won’t stop telling Gaza’s stories

I continue to report from Gaza because I want to make a record of our existence – our dignity, resilience and hope.

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I am starving in Gaza and I don’t believe the world can’t do anything

Israel tried to starve Gaza before and the international community reacted. Why isn’t it doing anything now?

Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, as the Israel-Gaza conflict continues, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 19, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Lemon trees, safety, hope: Memories of my Gaza home before war came

More than 10 months after Nour, 21, and her family fled their Gaza City house, she reflects on home, then and now.

Nour Elassy lived in Gaza City until just after October 7 when her family fled to Deir el-Balah in central Gaza [Courtesy of Nour Elassy]