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6 days ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Maha Hussaini
May 10, 2025 Under a tightening Israeli siege, Palestinian girl Rahaf Ayyad struggles with physical and emotional changes, as her mother fights for answers. Once proud of her long, silky brown hair, Rahaf Ayyad now dreads combing it. “Each time I use the comb, more of my hair falls out,” the Palestinian girl says.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini
Once proud of her long, silky brown hair, Rahaf Ayyad now dreads combing it. "Each time I use the comb, more of my hair falls out," the Palestinian girl says. The hair loss is just one of several changes in her body in recent months by what her mother suspects are the result of the ongoing Israeli blockade and destruction of the Gaza Strip.
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1 week ago | 
defenddemocracy.press | Maha Hussaini
By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City, occupied PalestineMay 5, 2025Under Israeli siege and with hospitals destroyed, a mother’s desperation leads to makeshift asthma treatmentAfter doctors narrowly saved Maram Manaa’s daughter from a life-threatening asthma attack, she pleaded for proper treatment to stop the attacks from returning. The Palestinian mother of three waited anxiously at her daughter’s bedside in a field hospital in central Gaza.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini
After doctors narrowly saved Maram Manaa’s daughter from a life-threatening asthma attack, she pleaded for proper treatment to stop the attacks from returning. The Palestinian mother of three waited anxiously at her daughter’s bedside in a field hospital in central Gaza. When the doctor finally returned, he was holding a plastic water bottle. It had been fashioned into a makeshift spacer, connected to an inhaler far too strong for a child that age. “This is all we’ve got,” he told her.
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1 month ago | 
eldiario.es | Maha Hussaini
Durante las últimas dos semanas, Om Muhammed Abu al-Enein ha recorrido diariamente los mercados populares de Gaza en busca de algo asequible para alimentar a sus cinco hijos, y a menudo vuelve a casa con las manos vacías. Desde que Israel volvió a cerrar los cruces de Gaza y reanudó su ofensiva militar, incluso la harina de trigo caducada, que también se vendía, se ha convertido en un bien escaso.
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini |Soumaya Ghannoushi
The day after their engagement, Sondos Abbas’ fiance called her in the morning, inviting her to his home in the afternoon to meet his family for the first time and share iftar with them. The young Palestinian woman carefully chose a pink chiffon shirt and black Charleston trousers she had bought specifically for the occasion, dressed up, and waited for him to come and pick her up.
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2 months ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini
Israeli jailers would wrap Palestinian prisoners in shrouds and bury them alive. As they began to suffocate, just before death took hold, a small amount of air was allowed in to keep them alive, only for the process to be repeated moments later. This is one of many accounts of torture inflicted on Palestinian detainees by Israeli authorities. Following the recent Hamas-Israel prisoner exchange, hundreds of detainees have been released, and similar harrowing testimonies have emerged.
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2 months ago | 
eldiario.es | Maha Hussaini |Ana Requena Aguilar |Toni Cuquerella |Manel Fontdevila
Hace unos quince meses, el 13 de octubre de 2023, solo tenía un deseo: regresar a mi hogar en la ciudad de Gaza, del que fui desplazada a la fuerza por el ejército israelí, y no revivir una segunda Nakba como la que sufrieron mis abuelos.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini |Mera Aladam |Marco Carnelos
Dozens of caravans and bulldozers have entered the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing awaiting entry into Gaza, as Hamas has said it will abide by the ceasefire deal and release Israeli captives as scheduled. Israeli authorities are expected to allow these vehicles through the Philadelphia corridor that runs along Egypt's boundary with Gaza and then into the Palestinian enclave via the Israeli-controlled Karem Abu Salem crossing.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini |Mera Aladam |Marco Carnelos
Dozens of caravans and bulldozers have entered the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing awaiting entry into Gaza, as Hamas has said it will abide by the ceasefire deal and release Israeli captives as scheduled. Israeli authorities are expected to allow these vehicles through the Philadelphia corridor that runs along Egypt's boundary with Gaza and then into the Palestinian enclave via the Israeli-controlled Karem Abu Salem crossing.
