A bus driver looks out the window while carrying Palestinian patients and war-wounded people, accompanied by relatives, as they get ready to leave the Gaza Strip for their treatment abroad through the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, days after it was opened by Israel for a limited number of people, in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on Feb. 3, 2026. (Credit: Bashar Taleb / AFP)
At 90 years old, Mohammad lives in a small 15-square-meter room he shares with three other Palestinians in Jenin. On the walls are a few photos and verses from the Quran. Nothing, or almost nothing, connects him to the sea or the streets of Jabalia, at the very north of Gaza, where he spent most of his life. “Yet it's there,” he insists. For two years, this Palestinian has been stranded far from the coastal enclave: on Oct. 7, 2023, he was in Umm el-Fahm, Israel. The war closed the borders on him, like a door slammed without warning. Since then, Mohammad remembers. More on this A bittersweet reunion for Palestinians returning home to Gaza The elderly man, with a wool cap on his head and a red keffiyeh around his neck, hands clasped and body hunched from the cold, recounts how he was assaulted the day after Oct. 7 and had all...
At 90 years old, Mohammad lives in a small 15-square-meter room he shares with three other Palestinians in Jenin. On the walls are a few photos and verses from the Quran. Nothing, or almost nothing, connects him to the sea or the streets of Jabalia, at the very north of Gaza, where he spent most of his life. “Yet it's there,” he insists. For two years, this Palestinian has been stranded far from the coastal enclave: on Oct. 7, 2023, he was in Umm el-Fahm, Israel. The war closed the borders on him, like a door slammed without warning. Since then, Mohammad remembers. More on this A bittersweet reunion for Palestinians returning home to Gaza The elderly man, with a wool cap on his head and a red keffiyeh around his neck, hands clasped and body hunched from the cold, recounts how he was assaulted the day after Oct. 7 and had...
