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thenation.comHow to Survive in a House Without WallsAfter their home was obliterated, Rasha Abou Jalal and her family remain determined to build a new one, even if it must be built out of nothing.

The Trump administration recently revealed its plans for a “New Gaza,” a metropolitan fantasy that would erase the Strip as we know it entirely.

thenation.comWhat Gaza’s Photographers Have SeenThese pictures are records of a genocidal war, but they are something more, too—they are fragments of Gaza itself

Gaza’s photographers have been forced to capture violence no human should ever witness. What does it mean to repeatedly record a blinded boy or a father mourning his children?

thenation.comThe Gaza Street That Refuses to DieWhat I saw walking one block in Gaza.

What can be learned by walking through just one block in Gaza? Ali Skaik did just that, to learn how people are continuing to live and what they still carry from the horrors of this genocide.

thenation.com“We Have Covered Events No Human Can Bear”Journalists in Gaza have bartered their lives to tell a truth that much of the world still doesn’t want to hear.

When Ola Al Asi decided to continue her reporting in the north of Gaza through a declared a military zone, she did so knowing “that the world would betray us”—that people would leave Gaza behind.

thenation.comA Catalog of Gaza’s LossRecording what has been erased—and making sense of what remains.

Gaza is now buried beneath 68 million tons of rubble. How does one, in the face of such destruction, refuse to be defined solely by loss? Deema Hattab presents a catalogue of Gaza’s cultural artifacts and landmarks.

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Do you remember the outcry when the Taliban destroyed the Bamiyan buddhas? Where is the outcry for the cultural destruction Israel has wrought on Gaza? The war on Hamas has been the excuse for an orgy of vindictive destruction that has robbed history, art, culture. We shall remember, Israel.

thenation.comMy Sister’s Death Still Echoes Inside MeRewaa was killed by an Israeli bomb. Her absence has broken me in ways I still cannot describe.

Asmaa Dwaima’s sister was her closest friend. When she was killed in 2025, a line was drawn in her life. Writing in the wake of that loss, Dwaima recalls their relationship, the love they shared, and the hope that they will someday be reunited.

“During my five years of dental school, and even afterward, I ate more meals in her home than in my own. I would call her to ask what she had made, and she would always say the same thing: “Come over… even if I didn’t cook, I’ll make something for you, or we’ll cook together.” A warm & tender life

thenation.comWhat Edward Said Teaches Us About GazaOn Palestine and the geography of vanishing.

Displacement has become the force that shapes Gaza’s geography. Reading alongside Edward Said, Alaa Alqaisi gives shape to a life now permanently marked with loss.

“When I walk along streets that no longer lead to any home, I feel the paradox press against me with the force of both wound and endurance. Gaza continues to exist in ways that maps cannot record, in lives that persist against erasure, in memories carried southward or abroad.”

thenation.comAt the Doorstep of TomorrowFaced with endlessly narrowing possibilities, I return to my diary in an attempt to dream, to imagine a future.

Writing soon after the ceasefire was declared, Engy Abdelal shares one of her diary entries: “An attempt to tell the world that I have a future just as you may understand that I have had a past.”

“From my window I can see Gaza as it is now: weary, exhausted, bent in prayer and desperate for salvation. But there remains life; the capacity to dream, to hope, to resist. These diaries are not a comfort. They are an attempt to tell the world that I have a future…” Israelis are killing Gaza’s hope