The call always came before the sun. “Wake up, wake up,” her mother would say, breathless with joy, letting the sound of mosque takbeers and the wind through the window spill into the receiver. On October 7, Hanadi Siyam woke to that voice again. “She made me live the moment,” Hanadi tells us. “Her voice, […]

In the crowded streets of Sheikh Radwan, Gaza City, one Palestinian family once lived a life of closeness, warmth, and ritual. The Orouq home was more than walls and a roof — it was a sanctuary where multiple generations gathered daily. “Our house,” recalls journalist Abd al-Rahim Orouq, “was my father’s life’s dream. He sold […]

The third part of Gaza Stories – A Test for Humanity: When Law Collapses reminds us that wars are never only about battlefields. They are about memory, erased villages, and the silence of doors locked for a return that never came. Dr. Wissam Atallah’s testimony brings this to life, showing how the story of Damra—renamed and […]

The streets that raised her are now a map of absences. In these Gaza stories, names become coordinates, homes become dates, and a life splits into a before and an after. Zahra Al-Rantisi remembers both with painful precision. Before October 7, she was behind the camera—filming for local outlets, collecting certificates, learning to turn light […]

The war in Gaza has now lasted more than 620 days. What remains is rubble, hunger, and broken lives across the Strip. But it is not only buildings that have collapsed—it is the system meant to protect civilians. Dr. Wisam Atallah, a legal scholar and political researcher, sees Gaza as more than a battlefield. He […]

Gaza Stories are often told through numbers—casualty counts, destroyed homes, statistics that flash on screens and then fade with the next update. But numbers cannot carry grief. For Waseem, living in exile, every number has a name: his mother and three sisters. They were his mother and three sisters, women who had built their lives […]

The morning felt ordinary—bag on his shoulder, tablet in hand, midterm notes open on the bus. But what followed became part of Gaza Stories, lived by Laith Arafat, a final-year medical student counting down months to graduation. Halfway to campus, the driver suddenly hit the brakes, turned the bus around, and started back the way […]

The streets of Beit Hanoun no longer echo with childhood laughter. In these Gaza stories, every corner of the city tells of bombardment, every wall carries scars of shattered lives. For journalist Hossam Shabat, Beit Hanoun is both his birthplace and his prison. “I was born here, my father was born here, and our family […]