Ruwaida Amer

Palestine

journalist 🎥 & Teacher 👩‍🏫 I am a filmmaker and I express my people through writing articles. As for education, it is my passion to be among children.

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These are the most terrifying days yet

2 weeks ago | electronicintifada.net | Ruwaida Amer

Despite everything we have gone through in Gaza over the past year and half, the situation has not been as hellish as it has been in these last difficult days. I’ve never had such terrifying daily experiences – warplanes shaking my home, shooting from low-flying aircraft that sounds like it will hit our roof, nonstop artillery fire from tanks – until now.
Come partorirò? I pericoli di una gravidanza a Gaza sotto i bombardamenti israeliani, la testimonianza di tre donne della Striscia

3 weeks ago | ilgiornaleditalia.it | Ruwaida Amer

Khan Younis, Striscia di Gaza. Niveen al-Barbari è terrorizzata per il suo bambino non ancora nato. A ogni attacco aereo israeliano che le si avvicina, la schiena e lo stomaco della trentatreenne si contorcono per la paura e il dolore. Prima dell’inizio dell’offensiva israeliana, il 7 ottobre, al-Barbari si recava regolarmente da uno specialista perché soffre di diabete gestazionale e pressione alta.
PHOTOS: A ruined university in northern Gaza becomes a refuge

4 weeks ago | 972mag.com | Jonathan Adler |Ruwaida Amer

In the early morning hours of March 22, Omar Al-Za’anin, 60, and his family of six hurriedly left their home under heavy rainfall in the northern Gaza neighborhood of Beit Hanoun. Five nights earlier, as Israel unleashed a wave of deadly strikes across the enclave — killing 400 people and injuring hundreds — the army dropped evacuation leaflets over Al-Za’anin’s neighborhood, declaring it a “combat zone” and urging them to evacuate immediately to known shelters in western Gaza City.
Rafah became my home after displacement. It is now being erased

1 month ago | middleeasteye.net | Ruwaida Amer

On Wednesday, Haaretz reported that Israel is preparing to expand its "buffer zone", swallowing Rafah and its surrounding neighbourhoods in southern Gaza. The city - once the last refuge for displaced Palestinians - has been reduced to rubble after weeks of relentless bombardment.
Gazans plead for intervention as Israeli attacks intensify

1 month ago | 972mag.com | Ben Reiff |Ruwaida Amer |Ahmed Ahmed

Since Israel shattered the ceasefire in Gaza last month, Palestinians have been facing horrors reminiscent of the first days of Israel’s genocidal onslaught. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, the Israeli military has killed over 1,300 people and wounded more than 3,000 in the past three weeks, in which time the overall death toll in the enclave has surpassed 50,000.
I am not a number, I am a great story from Gaza. Remember it

1 month ago | aljazeera.com | Ruwaida Amer

I've been thinking about writing a will. I didn't expect to feel death so close to me. I used to say death comes suddenly, we don't feel it, but during this war, they made us feel everything ... slowly. Recommended Stories We suffer before it happens, like expecting your house to be bombed. It may still be standing since the start of the war, but that feeling of fear remains within you. This fear has worn my heart down, till I feel like it can't handle anything more.
Watch: The circus team spreading Ramadan joy in Gaza

1 month ago | euronews.com | Gregory Ward |Ruwaida Amer

By Gregory Ward & Ruwaida Amer Published on 31/03/2025 - 18:30 GMT+2 The Holy month of Ramadan is a time of reflection, community, and giving, but for a group of circus enthusiasts, it's also a time to bring joy to Gazan children. The Free Gaza Circus, co-founded by Yousif Khader in 2018, performs and teaches circus arts to children using hand-crafted equipment. The circus centre, operating in displacement camps in Northern Gaza, aims to turn children's tears into smiles.
Rage at Israel fuses with ire at Hamas as protests rock Gaza

1 month ago | 972mag.com | Ben Reiff |Ruwaida Amer

For the past two days, Palestinians across the Gaza Strip have taken to the streets to demand an end to Israel’s genocidal onslaught and to Hamas’ rule of the territory. Beginning in the northern city of Beit Lahiya, demonstrations quickly spread to other parts of the enclave including Shuja’iyya in the north, Nuseirat and Deir Al-Balah in the center, and Khan Younis in the south.
Reduced to rubble, danger lurks everywhere in Rafah

1 month ago | electronicintifada.net | Ruwaida Amer

Amal Kassab lost her son Ahmad, 18, to an Israeli military attack on 19 January, the first day of the so-called ceasefire in January. Ahmad had set out from the al-Mawasi camp west of Khan Yunis where the family had sought shelter to check on their home in Rafah. “He said goodbye and told me that we would meet in Rafah and asked me to wait for his call to tell me how the house was, whether it was okay or destroyed,” Amal said during an interview in February. “I waited for him.”Ahmad never called.
Fasting While Starving, Gazans Struggle to Mark Ramadan

1 month ago | truthdig.com | Ruwaida Amer |Ibtisam Mahdi

On the first night of Ramadan, an aerial image of thousands of Palestinians in Rafah sharing an Iftar meal over a long red table went viral on social media. Stretching hundreds of meters and flanked on either side by destroyed buildings and rubble, the table was adorned with cheese, zaatar, bread, falafel, and olive oil.

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Ruwaida Amer @ruwaidaamer8

11 May 25

One Day in Gaza continues to win major international awards. I was producer of this film from Gaza. The idea behind the film was to choose ten people to document their day-to-day lives during the war. recently won @PeabodyAwards https://t.co/KlWjyvTrxx

Ruwaida Amer @ruwaidaamer8

9 May 25

This war is against children, they are the group that has suffered most painfully from the war.

+972 Magazine @972mag

‘She’s dying in front of my eyes’: The Gazan children starving under Israeli siege With over 70,000 children hospitalized for malnutrition, Israel's blockade has parents watching helplessly as their children waste away. By Ahmed Ahmed and @ruwaidaamer8: https://t.co/AkAvwMCkXm

Ruwaida Amer @ruwaidaamer8

8 May 25

I want to ask you for something personal: Please pray for my mother. She will undergo an emergency operation next week under these difficult circumstances. We have no healthcare facilities or good food. But we are fighting every moment to survive.❤️‍🩹