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 When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.

 
VICTORY is on its way to the sea  -- Screengrab Al Jazeera: Wanted for genocide - Guilty as Charged - rubio virus

  
 Olive tree - Symbol of Palestine
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Search for Over 10,000 Victims
Quds News - Dec 3, 2025
{Gaza Civil Defense: One Excavator Is All We Have to Search for Over 10,000 Victims
With only one excavator available, Gaza’s Civil Defense struggles to recover over 10,000 victims trapped beneath destroyed homes.
Gaza (QNN)- Gaza’s Civil Defense says recovery efforts move at an extremely slow pace. Spokesman Mahmoud Basal confirmed that crews began the first phase of searching for victims after more than two years of complete suspension. The work resumed after international understandings led by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Basal told Al Jazeera that the situation is “highly complex and extremely sensitive.” Many of the destroyed buildings held dozens of residents who died without warning. Their bodies remain under the rubble since November 2023. He explains that Israeli forces targeted excavators and bulldozers in previous months. These attacks stopped recovery operations in November 2023. Crews could only register victims as “under rubble” without reaching them, even though thousands of bodies were still buried. The new plan relies on a single excavator. The Red Cross secured only one machine for the first phase. Basal calls the step important but insufficient when faced with massive destruction and dangerous work environments. He says only one excavator works in the central area. Heavy equipment remains almost absent across Gaza. Crews will later move the machine to Gaza City and the northern governorates, but its capacity cannot match the scale of the disaster. Basal says international partners, including Egyptian, Qatari, and UN bodies, expressed willingness to participate. He believes broader involvement could speed up the work and ease the suffering of thousands of families who have waited two years to retrieve their loved ones. Civil Defense receives daily appeals from families. Many beg for help to search for relatives still trapped under collapsed homes. Basal warns that allocating limited hours or specific areas for excavation may cause social tension. Families question why some neighborhoods receive attention while others wait. He says Gaza City and the north need urgent, large-scale excavation because they suffered the widest destruction. The current phase covers the central area and parts of the south. Limited hours are also set for Gaza City. But Basal says the effort remains symbolic, not effective, because the machine cannot handle the volume of rubble and thick concrete layers. He calls for at least 20 excavators to achieve visible progress. “Working with one excavator makes the process slow and ineffective,” he says. Civil Defense teams face major technical and human risks. Crews often encounter unexploded ordnance, fuel tanks, and gas pipes. These hazards can trigger sudden explosions. Workers must follow strict safety procedures, which slows the pace but protects lives. Basal adds that identifying the recovered bodies is another challenge. Many remain under the rubble for long periods. Crews need careful documentation and special procedures to preserve dignity and return the bodies to their families. He says Gaza cannot resolve this humanitarian crisis without a broad international effort. Civil Defense needs equipment now. The goal is clear: recover all the bodies and allow families to bury their loved ones with dignity after more than two years of painful waiting.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66821&slug=gaza-civil-defense-one-excavator-is-all-we-have-to-search-for-over-10000-victims

Quds News - Dec 3, 2025
{Israel Says Rafah Crossing Will Open “For Exits Only,” Egypt Rejects Claim and Cites Trump’s Plan for Two-Way Movement
Israel announced that Rafah will open “for exits only,” but Egypt denies any coordination and insists the crossing must operate in both directions under Trump’s ceasefire plan.
Gaza (QNN)- Israel said on Wednesday that it will open the Rafah border crossing “in the coming days,” but only for the exit of Gaza residents into Egypt. In a statement on X, Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said the movement will take place “following security approval by Israel and under the supervision of the European Union mission.” COGAT described the arrangement as similar to the mechanism used in January 2025. Egypt immediately rejected the claim. The State Information Service said there is no coordination with Israel on opening the crossing. An official source told Egyptian media that “if an agreement is reached, movement must take place in both directions, into and out of Gaza, as stated in the plan put forward by US President Donald Trump.” Trump’s 20-point plan requires Rafah to open two ways, not one. Egypt’s denial came after Israeli media claimed that preparations were underway. Haaretz reported that Israel plans to reopen the crossing to allow civilians to leave Gaza for Egypt. The report said the move had been delayed because Israel's Netanyahu objected, citing what he called Hamas’s lack of cooperation on returning the bodies of Israeli soldier prisoners. Palestinian factions also issued a joint statement on Wednesday. They stressed the need to force Israel to meet its obligations under Trump's ceasefire agreement. The groups called on mediators and guarantors to ensure that Rafah opens in both directions, as stated in the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement and in UN Security Council Resolution 2803. The factions warned that Israel seeks to limit Rafah to a one-way exit, which violates the deal. They urged international actors to pressure Israel to stop Israel's attempts to manipulate or avoid its commitments.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66822&slug=israel-says-rafah-crossing-will-open-for-exits-only-egypt-rejects-claim-and-cites-trumps-plan-for-two-way-movement

Quds News - Dec 3, 2025
{Israeli Army Pushes Yellow Zone Deeper Into Gaza, Violates Trump’s Ceasefire, and Shrinks Space for 2.5 Million Palestinians
Israel expands the “yellow zone” again in eastern Gaza, pushing deeper into crowded neighborhoods and tightening control despite international guarantees.
Gaza (QNN)-  The Israeli army moved the yellow concrete cubes east of Gaza City on Wednesday. QNN’s correspondent confirmed the move. The army pushed the line hundreds of meters deeper into the last remaining area under Palestinian control. More than 2.5 million Palestinians live in this shrinking space. This expansion widens the Israeli-occupied yellow zone beyond what the agreement allowed. It is not the first time Israel has done this. Gaza’s territory keeps shrinking, while Israel’s control grows despite international guarantees and Trump's ceasefire. The latest push mirrors what happened 10 days ago. On that day, Israeli forces expanded the so-called yellow zone in eastern Gaza by more than 300 meters. The army did it quietly and without warning. Tanks entered the area and trapped dozens of families in the eastern neighborhoods of Gaza City. Residents said tanks blocked their exit routes in Al-Shaaf, Al-Nazzaz, and Baghdad streets. Soldiers then moved the yellow blocks farther inside the neighborhoods. The move widened the zone that Israel controls under the Trump plan. The fate of many trapped families remains unknown. Heavy shelling hit the area during and after that expansion. Mediators did not comment on Israel's violations. The Government Media Office said Israeli forces felt emboldened. “The silence of the mediators and guarantors encourages Israel to continue these crimes and violations of the ceasefire,” the office said in a statement.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66820&slug=israeli-army-pushes-yellow-zone-deeper-into-gaza-violates-trumps-ceasefire-and-shrinks-space-for-25-million-palestinians


Israeli Military Bulldozed Bodies of Gazan Aid Seekers
Quds News - Dec 3, 2025
{CNN Probe Finds Israeli Military Bulldozed Bodies of Gazan Aid Seekers into Shallow, Unmarked Graves
A new CNN investigation has pointed to the Israeli military bulldozing the bodies of aid seekers near an aid crossing in northern Gaza into shallow, unmarked graves after killing them.
CNN Probe Finds Israeli Military Bulldozed Bodies of Gazan Aid Seekers into Shallow, Unmarked Graves
Gaza (QNN)- A new CNN investigation has pointed to the Israeli military bulldozing the bodies of aid seekers near an aid crossing in northern Gaza into shallow, unmarked graves after killing them, and at other times leaving the remains to decompose in the open. The probe is the latest to document Israel’s “systematic and widespread pattern of burial operations” during the genocide, leaving families without answers about the fate of their loved ones. The CNN investigation was published on Wednesday and drew upon hundreds of videos and photos from around the Zikim crossing in northern Gaza, along with interviews of eyewitnesses and local aid truck drivers. It revealed that the Israeli military bulldozed the bodies of some of those aid seekers who were killed by Israeli forces near the crossing into “shallow, unmarked graves.”  At other times, their remains were simply left to decompose in the open, unable to be recovered in the militarized area by other aid seekers or the civil defense due to the dangerous conditions. Aid seekers were also killed by indiscriminate Israeli fire near the crossing, the probe confirmed. The practice of mishandling bodies by bulldozing them into unmarked graves can violate international law, according to legal experts. One of the Israeli military whistleblowers told CNN that when his unit buried nine people in early 2024, the location of the grave was left unmarked. In one incident, an ambulance operated by civil defense workers in Gaza was permitted to access the area several days after the Israeli military opened fire towards an aid truck and killed several aid seekers. Videos obtained and geolocated by CNN to that location in Zikim show a crushed, overturned aid truck amid a pile of debris. Several decomposing bodies are scattered around the vehicle, partially buried in mounds of sand. A stray dog is seen nearby. “We were shocked by the scene,” one of the civil defense workers told CNN. “The (bodies) we recovered were decomposed – they had clearly been there for a while, there were signs that dogs had eaten parts of them.” A half dozen local aid truck drivers who worked the Zikim route described scenes of strewn and decomposing bodies as a common sight, with Israeli bulldozers at times clearing the corpses into the sand. “I see dead people every time I drive through Zikim… I watched Israeli bulldozers bury the dead bodies,” one driver said. “If you passed through that area in July, you wouldn’t miss it; I kept my windows closed.” “Israeli army bulldozers either bury them or cover them with dirt,” another driver said. One aid truck driver told CNN: “It’s like the Bermuda Triangle; no one knows what’s happening in that area, and it seems no one ever will.” These reports of the Israeli military bulldozing the bodies of Palestinians are not isolated to the Zikim crossing. During over two years of ongoing genocide in Gaza, the Israeli military has pursued a systematic policy of burying Palestinian bodies in unmarked graves, including near the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution sites in central and southern Gaza, under conditions that obstruct identification, conceal burial sites, and prevent families from learning the fate of their loved ones. Euro-Med Monitor said Israeli forces repeatedly buried Palestinian bodies in public squares, open land, and areas near vital facilities, including aid distribution centres, hospitals, and schools, after sealing these locations militarily and blocking access by medical teams, families, and residents. “This practice destroys potential evidence of unlawful killings, obstructs effective investigation, and deprives families of the right to know the fate and burial place of their relatives, in further violation of human dignity and international law,” it added. The human rights monitor said about 45 people have gone missing in the vicinity of aid distribution centres in the Gaza Strip, and their fate remains unknown, whether they were detained and subjected to enforced disappearance in Israeli prisons or killed and buried in unmarked sandy locations near those centres. These incidents, the monitor said, reflect a “recurring pattern of deliberate dehumanisation and the use of terror to break the Palestinian population and force submission and displacement.” “It constitutes further evidence of the specific intent required for genocide under international law, while also being liable to classification as crimes against humanity and full-fledged war crimes.” The burning and bulldozing also include hundreds of bodies uncovered last year at the Nasser Hospital in southetn Gaza, according to Palestinian authorities.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66819&slug=cnn-probe-finds-israeli-military-bulldozed-bodies-of-gazan-aid-seekers-into-shallow-unmarked-graves

Al Jazeera - Dec 3, 2025
{Street sports help Palestinians cope with trauma
Organised sports in Gaza have been almost entirely shut down by Israel’s devastating war, but some Palestinians continue to play informally as a way to cope with years of trauma. Tareq Abu Azzoum attended a volleyball game in central Gaza.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/12/3/street-sports-help-palestinians-cope-with-trauma


Videoscreen grab: Yousef Dar al-Musa with his grandson - Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera - Dec 3, 2025
{The worst Palestinian olive harvest in collective memory
Deir Ammar, occupied West Bank - The Othman family sat looking out from their homes at the valley where they’ve picked olives for generations. Ali Badaha, 60, and his cousins Ismail, 59, and Izzat Othman, 72, recalled chasing each other in those groves decades ago, singing and having picnics while their families harvested the ancestral olive trees. At night, they and others in the hillside village waited their turn to press their olives at the village oil press among their neighbours, drinking tea and sharing stories. But this year, for the first time in their lives, the family’s trees and their shrunken olives, long unpruned, have gone unpicked. There’s no singing this year. No picnics or kids playing tag through the groves. Rather, the expansive Othman-Badaha clan, their children and grandchildren, sit around a table outside their homes on a late October evening, overlooking family groves they cannot reach due to threats from armed Israeli settlers and constantly renewed 24-hour Israeli closed military zone orders. Earlier that day, Yousef Dar al-Musa, 67, sat in his family compound, his face and stomach bruised and his arm bandaged after being attacked by Israeli settlers when he went out to his lands. Settlers beat him with the butts of their rifles in his fields, where he owns more than 450 olive trees. “I'm not allowed to leave my house? I'm not allowed to go to the land?” he said indignantly.
“I inherited that land from my father, my grandfather, my great-grandfather … And who are you, man? Where did you come from?”
For months, Yousef was attacked by settlers when trying to access his land, where he grows figs, tomatoes, grapes, barley, eggplants, lentils, almonds and cucumbers. His family’s most valuable source of income is normally selling olive oil to markets in Ramallah. But this year, he has no olive oil.
“The earth is our life, from our ancestors, going back 10,000 years,” Yousef said through wheezy coughs and a thick fellahi [farmer's] accent.
“Without the harvest, I will die. Really, I will die.”} Read more at Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2025/12/3/oil-presses-stand-silent-as-west-bank-has-its-worst-olive-harvest-in-years


killings continue
Quds News - Dec 3, 2025
{Four Palestinians Killed in Israeli Attacks Across Gaza Over Past 48 Hours, Violating Ceasefire
Four Palestinians have been killed and 13 others injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip over the past 48 hours, in another violation of the ceasefire.
Gaza (QNN)- Four Palestinians have been killed and 13 others injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip over the past 48 hours, in another violation of the ceasefire that took effect in early October, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry on Wednesday. Two were killed in an Israeli attack that targeted a group of civilians in the Zeitoun neighborhhod of Gaza City, medical sources confirmed on Wednesday. At least two killed, including a child, and several others injured in an Israeli artillery shell that targeted a school sheltering displaced families in the Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City, last night.

Mahmoud Wadi
Photojournalist Mahmoud Wadi was also killed in a drone attack in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis on Tuesday. The military also detonated a booby-trapped robot near the Sanafour area in the Tuffah neighborhood, conducted demolition operations on buildings in the northern part of the Strip, and launched artillery shelling on the eastern parts. The attacks come in violation of the ceasefire agreement which took effect on October 10 and stated "all military operations, including aerial and artillery bombardment, will be suspended". Israel has violated the Gaza ceasefire at least 591 times in 50 days, killing hundreds of Palestinians since 10 October, according to the Gaza Government Media Office on Sunday. The Office said about 357 civilians have been killed and 903 others injured in the violations, with children, women and the elderly accounting for the majority of the victims. The Office added Israel shot at civilians 164 times, raided residential areas beyond the “yellow line” 25 times, bombed and shelled Gaza 280 times, and demolished people’s properties on 118 occasions. It added that Israel has also abducted 38 Palestinians from Gaza during the 50 days. At least 70,117 people have been killed across Gaza since the start of Israel’s war on the besieged enclave in October 2023, the Ministry added. An additional 170,999 people have been wounded.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66817&slug=four-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-attacks-across-gaza-over-past-48-hours-violating-ceasefire


Videoscreen grab: Searching for my existence
Al Jazeera - Dec 3, 2025
{Gaza university resumes in-person classes
Islamic University of Gaza resumes in-person classes after two years amid war damage and displacement.
The Islamic University of Gaza has taken an important step towards reopening amid the ceasefire that has paused Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave. The university resumed in-person classes on Saturday for the first time in two years, during which displacement, power cuts, and the destruction of university facilities made only limited attempts at online learning possible. The gradual return to in-person learning takes place inside buildings damaged by air strikes and partly reduced to rubble, after two years of forced interruption to studies by a conflict that has destroyed the enclave’s educational infrastructure. “Today is a historic day. We are returning to education despite the tragedy and cruelty left behind by the genocide,” said Islamic University President Asaad Yousef Asaad. “Palestinians, as everyone knows, love life and education,” he added. Large numbers of students from the faculties of medicine and health sciences returned to their classrooms on Saturday, the president said. A phased plan for a full return of the university’s functions is under way in coordination with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, he continued. Overall, 4,000 students graduated during the war through remote learning, and the university is now receiving new students in person for the first time since October 2023. According to the Gaza Government Media Office, some 165 educational institutions were destroyed by Israeli strikes over the past two years or so, while another 392 sustained partial damage. Parts of the Islamic University of Gaza’s buildings continue to shelter hundreds of displaced families. The institution’s administration has appealed to authorities to find urgent solutions and provide alternative housing.} View Gallery - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/12/3/gaza-university-resumes-in-person-classes-2


Quds News - Nov 30, 2025 - By: Yasmin Abu Shammala
{“Every Place Longs for You”: A Journey Through Gaza's Geography of Loss
As Gaza’s landscape turns into tents and rubble, Yasmin Abu Shammala, a displaced journalist, travels the old coastal road to confront the silence left by vanished schools, ruined cafés, and the memories buried beneath them.
A person is usually born into a community, one life folded into the rhythm of many. But here in Gaza, things have always been different.  We are born not merely into a community, but as a community, as roots pressed deep into the soil of this place. From the summer sea to the winter fire pit, from the spring chrysanthemums to the autumn olive press, Gaza shapes us in every season, in calm and in war, though calm has never truly lived here since the day I opened my eyes to this land. A Gazan sees themselves reflected in Gaza’s stones, its trees, its sky, even the air that fills its lungs. It is a bond no words can untangle, not even we, who feel it in our bones, can fully describe it. Here, we cling to our places the way others cling to their children.If the world wouldn’t call us mad, we would list our places among our sons and daughters, answering “three, and a home overlooking Martyrs’ (Al-Shuhada’a) Square” when asked how many we are. But the world has already given us enough labels, and madness would simply be another. For two years, since October 2023, Israel has harmed us in our children, and in the places we carried like children. Losing a child tears away a piece of the soul; losing both children and places turns a person into a moving shell. Two years of erasure fed on what remained of us. Today, after two years exiled in southern Gaza, unable to see the face of my own city, I decide to walk toward the scattered pieces of me in the north. They say distance kills love, but Israel has already killed us in every way imaginable, including killing us with longing: longing for those taken, for those we cannot reach, for the places that were our first instinct of belonging. And so I begin my return to Gaza, by walking the long, wounded length of al-Rasheed Street…
Stepping Into What Was Lost
I step into al-Rasheed Street, the long shoreline road that once threaded the city together like a living artery. Before the genocidal war, this street felt like Gaza’s quiet promise: a place where the sea leaned close enough to touch your breath, where cafés glowed in soft colors at night, and where every passing student, worker, and family carried the calm that only water can give. I used to wait for my university rides just to pass through this road, to watch the waves rise and fall beside the wheels of passing taxis, to catch the faint scent of cardamom coffee drifting from beachfront kiosks, to feel the city open around me in a rare moment of unburdened life. But today, al-Rasheed feels like it has forgotten how to breathe. The cafés are bones. The rest-stops are ash. The sea is blocked by rows of tents, white, torn, heavy with salt and sorrow. A road that once carried the city’s leisure has become the line Israel used to divide Gaza’s body in half: north from south, home from exile. The driver says nothing, but the radio fills the silence. “Every place longs for you,” an old song for Mohammed Abdu. The lyrics settle over the ruins outside my window like dust, and something inside me tightens. I close my eyes. For a moment, I hear only the song and the sea, both calling the names of places I haven’t seen in two years. I open my eyes as the song fades, but the ache it leaves behind lingers like humidity. The car is still moving along al-Rasheed Street, its windows framing a coastline that no longer recognizes itself. The driver keeps his eyes on the road; the radio murmurs low, replaying the line, “Every place longs for you,” as if it were a prayer we are no longer sure how to say out loud. Beside me sits a man holding a small cardboard box on his knees, filled with socks, batteries, cheap hairclips, and a few small bags of sugar. The kind of mixed, fragile stock that tells you more about survival than any report ever could. I do a double take before I realize I know that I am sitting beside a teacher.
It’s Hussam Hijazi.
Years ago, he was a respected teacher in a school in western Gaza. Now he adjusts the box on his lap so it doesn’t slide with every bump in the road. He notices my gaze and offers a tired, apologetic half-smile, as if he owes me an explanation for the box between us. “The war pushed me here,” he says quietly, his voice almost drowned by the hum of the engine. “I was a teacher for fifteen years. Fifteen.” He repeats the number like someone reciting a verse they can’t quite let go of. “When the schools closed, when salaries stopped, when survival became the only curriculum left… I had no choice.” He tilts his head toward the window, toward the long line of al-Rasheed stretching ahead of us. “This was the road I took to school every day,” he adds. “Now it’s the road I take to find whatever merchandise is cheapest, so I can sell enough to buy bread.” There is no anger in his tone, only a deep exhaustion, and a thin thread of dignity holding itself together in his posture, in the way he keeps one careful hand on the box as if it were the last fragile shape of his old life. For a moment, we sit in silence. The car rattles forward. Outside, the tents blur past like a second, makeshift city. Hussam lets out a short, humorless laugh, and I feel something pull inside my chest, the sense that Gaza has not only displaced its people, but displaced them from the roles they were born to fill. When the car finally slows near the broken frame of the Palestinian Legislative Council, I step out. The air outside is heavier, but my steps are surer. Some destinations demand the dignity of arriving on foot. I close the door behind me, leaving Hussam to continue his search for cheaper goods, and begin walking toward the place that once held this city’s mind and conversation:
Rashad al-Shawa Cultural Center.
Rashad al-Shawa Center: A City Without Its Stage
The closer I get to Rashad al-Shawa Cultural Center, the more the air changes. It becomes heavier, as though grief has density here, as though memory thickens into something you must wade through. This center was once Gaza’s crown, its intellectual gateway, the hall where international delegations sat, where young people filled notebooks, where exhibitions stretched across polished floors. I attended conferences here, hurried between its doors, listened to voices that dared to imagine Gaza as part of the world. Now, when I stand before it, it takes me a moment to realize I’m in the right place. The great hall is gone. The façade is fractured. And where the entrance once welcomed thousands, there are tents, dozens of them, pitched against walls that survived only halfway. Inside one of these tents, I meet Abeer Dheifallah, sitting on a thin mattress that barely shields her from the cold ground. She looks at the ruins around her and shakes her head slowly. “I used to enter this building with awe,” she says. “It made me feel small in a good way, small because Gaza was grand. I never imagined I would be living inside a tent here, in the same place I once entered dressed for conferences and ceremonies.” Her voice breaks when she adds, “I feel like the center is ashamed of what we have become, or maybe I am ashamed that I have no walls to hide my grief.” Just beyond the tents stands al-Karmel Secondary School for Boys, directly opposite al-Shawa Center. My father spent years teaching Arabic there, years shaping students who went on to rank among Palestine’s highest achievers in national exams. Today, the schoolyard is a field of tents. The classrooms are unrecognizable. My father refuses to walk near it; he avoids its name in conversation. He fears that seeing what it has become will pierce through layers of grief he carefully folded away. And he is not alone. According to updated educational damage assessments, more than 80% of Gaza’s schools have been destroyed or severely damaged, and over 625,000 students lost access to formal education. The numbers are staggering, yet they still feel too small to capture what it means when the place where your father once shaped futures becomes a shelter without books, without teachers, without children. I cannot stand here any longer. I turn south, walking toward a place that once tasted like celebration.
Abu al-Saud Sweets, The Sweetness That Tried to Live
The smell reaches me before the storefront does, a memory, not a scent. Warm sugar. Melted cheese. Semolina kissed by heat. Abu al-Saud, Gaza’s most beloved dessert shop, sits half-rebuilt, half-broken, but undeniably alive. It was tradition: every person passing by would stop for knafeh, whether they planned to or not. It was the dessert people carried abroad as gifts, the taste that said “Gaza” before any word could. During the first day of the genocide, Abu al-Saud voluntarily shut its doors, not because ingredients ran out, but out of mourning for the martyrs, as the shop’s manager, Khaled Abu Ouda, told me. Then came the strike. The ovens were shattered, the counters burned, the copper trays twisted. But the moment a temporary truce was announced, Abu al-Saud reopened. Khaled described it simply: “When I saw the crowds coming back, more than before, it felt, for a moment, like the war had ended.” I stand before the shop and feel the ache of something too tender to touch. I cannot enter. Sweetness today feels like a betrayal. I leave the lingering scent behind and continue walking toward where the city once rested.
The Vanishing of Unknown Soldier Square
Saha al-Jundi al-Majhoul, The Unknown Soldier Square, was once the wide breath between Gaza’s errands. The place we stopped to rest after shopping in Rimal. The place we crossed on our way to work. The place we bought Gaza-style iced drinks or kharroub before continuing our day.  For a full year of my life, I passed through this square daily as a marketing content writer working nearby. Today, as I reach its edges, I cannot recognize it. The square is gone, not metaphorically, but literally buried under tent after tent after tent. There is no room to walk. No pigeons. No vendors spinning pink cotton candy. No children weaving through legs. Just fabric walls and ropes and exhaustion. And then, quietly, grief takes a new shape inside me. Because from here, I walk toward the building where I worked for the first time, my first job, my first salary, my first steps into adulthood.
I found it collapsed.
The place where I learned how to write professionally, where I grew into myself, where coworkers became friends, gone. According to recent economic assessments, over 70% of Gaza’s private businesses have been destroyed, and more than 85% of the workforce has lost stable employment. Entire sectors vanished: marketing, IT, media, design, retail, too many to count. These numbers sit heavily on the rubble where my workplace once stood, because now they have a face. Mine.
I can’t stay here.
I continue walking toward a familiar landmark of comfort.
The Last Taste of Normal, Muraṭibat Kazem
For a fleeting moment, I almost smile.
Because Kazem’s Ice Drink Shop, Muraṭibat Kazem, is still operating. He still accepts the small 10-shekel coin that most shops refuse due to inflation and scarcity. He still uses the same recipe he used before the war. But when I take a sip, something inside me folds. My taste buds recognize the flavor, but my heart does not recognize the world around it. Maybe it’s because every place in Gaza carries ghosts now. Kazem’s iced drink holds memories of people who are no longer here to drink it with me. And joy, when tied to faces that war has erased, becomes something sharp rather than sweet.
I leave silently. Some losses are too loud to swallow. Returning South, A Road That No Longer Knows Us
The sun begins to sink as I make my way back toward al-Rasheed Street. This time, I walk slowly, unwilling to rush through the city that has already lost too much. On my way back south, the bus I’m riding in jolts to a stop. A crowd is arguing over space in a small minibus. I look out the window and my breath catches, my former university professor is among them. Before the war, he drove to campus in his private car, respected, dignified, steady. Today, he is forced to fight for a seat in an overcrowded shared bus, because survival has turned every meter of asphalt into a battlefield. I turn my face away quickly, pretending not to recognize him, giving him the dignity the war has stolen. Recent human-impact reports show that more than 60% of Gaza’s academics and university employees have lost their jobs or were forced into informal labor, selling vegetables, repairing shoes, working construction, anything that might keep a family alive for one more week.
He is not alone.
None of us are.
This Pain Has No Ending Yet
As Gaza fades into the darkness behind me, I can feel the weight of everything I saw pressing into my lungs. The tents. The ruins. The places that once held our laughter. The places that raised our parents. The places that shaped who we became. We keep telling ourselves we will return to these places when the war ends,  but today taught me a different truth: we are returning even as we are breaking. This genocide did not only kill people. It killed the geography of our memories. It killed our places, which for Gazans, is another form of killing us. Tonight, as I arrive back in the south, the nightmare does not loosen its grip. We still wake up from dreams of those we lost. Now we also wake up from dreams of the streets and buildings that raised us.} Videos - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66799&slug=every-place-longs-for-you-a-journey-through-gazas-geography-of-loss

   

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