Displaced Gazans flee Israeli bombings on a donkey-drawn cart. (Credit: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
Noor Alyacoubi, 27, a translator and media coordinator at a research center, has not left Gaza since the first days of the war between Hamas and Israel. She tells L’Orient-Le Jour about her shock after hearing on an Israeli channel that the army allegedly stole donkeys from Gaza to evacuate them to France, where they would be treated.It’s been 653 days. I’ve said it so many times that it doesn’t even sound real anymore.More than six hundred days of hunger, fear, cold and waiting — for something, anything — to change.But nothing changes. We’re still trapped, still under siege, still watching our lives shrink to the size of a tent, a ration, a prayer. Israel keeps perfecting the violence. Starvation, bombings and displacement — it’s all systematic.And the world? The world keeps watching. Quietly. No rescue missions. No safe corridors. No...
Noor Alyacoubi, 27, a translator and media coordinator at a research center, has not left Gaza since the first days of the war between Hamas and Israel. She tells L’Orient-Le Jour about her shock after hearing on an Israeli channel that the army allegedly stole donkeys from Gaza to evacuate them to France, where they would be treated.It’s been 653 days. I’ve said it so many times that it doesn’t even sound real anymore.More than six hundred days of hunger, fear, cold and waiting — for something, anything — to change.But nothing changes. We’re still trapped, still under siege, still watching our lives shrink to the size of a tent, a ration, a prayer. Israel keeps perfecting the violence. Starvation, bombings and displacement — it’s all systematic.And the world? The world keeps watching. Quietly. No rescue missions. No...
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