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A powerful collection of testimonies from Palestinians facing genocide and displacement in Gaza with hope and resistance.
Displaced in Gaza aims to raise global awareness of how violent displacement has impacted the lives of Palestinians-students, mothers, fathers, grandparents, children, educators, and those who already survived the Nakba of 1948. In Gaza, 2.3 million Palestinians have been subjected to starvation, mass destruction, and targeted killing. Yet they endure.
This book is a commitment to the longstanding Palestinian tradition of storytelling, documenting both the horror of the war and the resilience of the Palestinian people. The stories in this collection are not merely accounts of suffering, they are assertions of humanity, resistance, hope, and the unbreakable bond that ties Palestinians to their homeland.
Displaced in Gaza is a collaboration between the American Friends Service Committee and the Hashim Sani Center for Palestine Studies at Universiti Malaya.
List of contents
Foreword by Ahmad Alnaouq
Introduction by Yousef Aljamal
Caring for Two Orphaned Children in Gaza
by Aisha Osama Abu Ajwa
I Lost My Son, My Support in This Life
by Fidaa Fathi Abu Yousef
Israel Killed Ten Members of My Family in One Airstrike
by Rehab Musa Aljamal
The Occupation Killed My Grandchildren and Dispersed My Family
by Yusra Salem Abu Awad
I Lost My Beautiful Father at 12 Years Old
by Youssef Qawash
Three Days without Food or Water
by Fatima Ahmed Abu Bakra
My Husband was Martyred. There is No Body: My Story of Pain Caused by the Israeli Occupation
by Somia Issa Mustafa Saleh
The Occupation Arrested My Sick Husband and We Live in Constant Suffering
by Shaymaa Alissawi
The Occupation Killed My Husband and Left Me with Our Three Children
by Shaymaa Aldurra
The Stolen Childhood of Palestinian Children
by Saeed Alhalabi
Over 100 Displaced People have Sheltered in My Home Since the Beginning of the War
by Rasmiyya Ahmed Abbas
My Mother Returned Home to Die: The Injustices against Elderly Patients in the Gaza Strip
By Ali Al Owisi
The Need to Obtain Water is the Greatest Suffering We are Exposed to in the Displacement Tents
by Nidaa Abu Toha
My Husband was Martyred While Searching for Food for Us
by Najlaa Al Kafarna
The Occupation Killed Every Member of My Family by Bombing Our Home
by Mohammed Al Bibi
Displaced in 1948 and Today, Surviving Another Nakba and Genocide
By Mohammed Abdul Jabbar Abu Seif
Under Siege in Khan Younis
by Manar Wadi
Teaching 200 Children in Displacement Camps: How I Turn Displacement Tents into Schools
by Ikram Talaat Ahmed
Today, I Sell Chips, but Tomorrow, I Will be a Doctor
by Aseel Al Hawajri
Widowed on the Fifth Day of the War
by Fidaa Alshakhreet
Israel Killed My Daughter on Her Third Birthday
by Tareq Fareed Al Hajj
Creating Joy Despite Displacement
by Akram Abdul Nabi Al Ajrami
Providing Medical Services under Impossible Conditions
by Ahmed Nasr Halas
Raising My Martyred Son's Children
by Nasreen Naeem Al Hilu
The Israeli Occupation Steals the Dreams of Palestinian Students
by Mohammed Altaweel
Birth and Death under Israeli Bombs
by Hajj Abu Sultan
Only My Brother and I Survived the Bombing of Our Home
by Hala Adel Al Najmi
Remember Us
by Paul Catafago
About the author
Yousef Aljamal, born in the Al-Nusierat refugee camp in Gaza, works as the Gaza coordinator at the Palestine Activism Program at the American Friends Service Committee and recently received his PhD at Sakarya University in Turkey.
