Noor al-Yacoubi, a 25-year-old translator and media coordinator at a research center, lives in the Gaza Strip, which has been bombarded and besieged by the Israeli army since the early days of the war between Hamas and Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. She shares with L’Orient-Le Jour her and other residents’s thoughts, just hours before a potential cease-fire agreement, as Hamas is expected to soon provide its response to the mediators: Read more Are Israel and Hamas on the verge of a cease-fire in Gaza? In a moment of dark humor during a mundane debate about who should go to the market, my in-laws and I found ourselves tackling a grim question: Which loss would be harsher for a child — their mother or their father?“If we — the mothers — died, our children would lose affection and love,” we justified. “If the fathers died, they’d lose...