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"I can finally start learning English again." That's the first message we receive from Amir* on Sept. 26, after his 14-hour journey fleeing Gaza City, drowned under a deluge of Israeli fire. After he describes a journey as frightening as it was humiliating along the Salaheddine road heading south through the enclave, he concludes: "Now I have to focus on improving my English writing skills." Since January, the young man has made it his obsession, intent on leaving to study abroad and escape the Gaza Strip. "The hardest part is living without hope," he confides. "English is my only chance to live. I can't give up on it." Another testimony from Gaza Diaries from Gaza: I do not know where I am, I do not know how I arrived here 'Israel struck back and hell began'The war was far...
"I can finally start learning English again." That's the first message we receive from Amir* on Sept. 26, after his 14-hour journey fleeing Gaza City, drowned under a deluge of Israeli fire. After he describes a journey as frightening as it was humiliating along the Salaheddine road heading south through the enclave, he concludes: "Now I have to focus on improving my English writing skills." Since January, the young man has made it his obsession, intent on leaving to study abroad and escape the Gaza Strip. "The hardest part is living without hope," he confides. "English is my only chance to live. I can't give up on it." Another testimony from Gaza Diaries from Gaza: I do not know where I am, I do not know how I arrived here 'Israel struck back and hell began'The war was far...
