Palestinians flee northern Gaza in the face of intensified Israeli strikes on Gaza City, heading south, Sept. 15, 2025. (Credit: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters)
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 27-year-old translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing her diaries with L'Orient Today during the war. She shares her experience having to flee Gaza City as Israel's offensive grows increasingly violent.Day by day, the city is being annihilated violently. Homes, schools, bakeries, refugee camps, towers… everything that sustains life is being destroyed. Israel has been intensifying its military attacks on Gaza City, part of a broader effort to force its residents south. The message is clear: leave, or risk being buried in the rubble.And yet, many of us refuse to leave.Because we know better this time. Noor's relationship to her home Diaries from Gaza: 'What if those windows had still been glass?' They still remember what happened...
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 27-year-old translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing her diaries with L'Orient Today during the war. She shares her experience having to flee Gaza City as Israel's offensive grows increasingly violent.Day by day, the city is being annihilated violently. Homes, schools, bakeries, refugee camps, towers… everything that sustains life is being destroyed. Israel has been intensifying its military attacks on Gaza City, part of a broader effort to force its residents south. The message is clear: leave, or risk being buried in the rubble.And yet, many of us refuse to leave.Because we know better this time. Noor's relationship to her home Diaries from Gaza: 'What if those windows had still been glass?' They still remember what happened...
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