“My life has been formed by displacement,” stated Al Gourani, now 85 years outdated.
“I nonetheless bear in mind the day in 1948 as my father hurriedly gathered us to flee our house in Al Faluja, a small village situated between Hebron and Gaza, as Israeli militias approached,” she stated. “We escaped to Khan Younis, leaving every thing behind.”
Since then, Al Gourani has endured seven wars, and recounted how every time her household was displaced, they didn’t know if their house would nonetheless be standing once they returned.
“Every stripped away extra of our dignity,” she stated. “This present struggle is the cruelest and most relentless, lasting longer than any earlier than.”
All through the devastating struggle in Gaza, UN Ladies has heard from ladies and ladies from all walks of life:
Niveen, a paramedic, has continued her work regardless of dropping 80 members of her household in a single day in November 2023. She has been displaced a number of instances, and witnessed horrors, from the destruction of Kamal Adwan Hospital to the bombing of an UNRWA shelter the place she sought refuge in Jabalia.
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