Rafah is all that is left to those still standing.
In the days before, I looked upon the cold winter nights with fondness, days I spent sipping coffee underneath the starlight, wearing my favorite clothes in my favorite place with my favorite people. These days are over now — not just for myself, but for an entire society. Yet even though our realities have now been reduced to bare existence, we won’t content ourselves to aspire for small things. We still want it all — because, to put it simply, we will never stop wanting everything out of life, no matter the series of displacements we’ve had to endure.
The majority of people are staying in designated shelters, either in schools or UNRWA compounds, meaning that most families of a typical size of seven people are separated from other similarly sized families by little more than a sheet of cloth or a nylon tarp. Rows upon rows of families are hemmed in these close quarters.