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  • 2 weeks 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.

  • 3 weeks 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.

  • 4 weeks 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.

  • 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.

  • 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
Ruwaida Amer @ruwaidaamer8
10 Apr 25

Gaza is like a phoenix, reborn from its ashes.

Ruwaida Amer
Ruwaida Amer @ruwaidaamer8
9 Apr 25

They forced us to live in difficult conditions in Gaza. We hear people's voices calling for help, patients dying from lack of treatment, we crave food but cannot find it, we drink contaminated water. We are living through the worst times of our lives. But justice will be winning.

Ruwaida Amer
Ruwaida Amer @ruwaidaamer8
9 Apr 25

The bombing doesn't stop for a moment in Gaza, my head is about to explode from the sounds. The ground shakes from the intensity of the explosions.