Gazans children, most of them displaced, attend a class at the UNRWA Deir al-Balah Joint School in central Gaza, on December 6, 2025. Illustrative photo Bashar Taleb/AFP
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 27-year-old media coordinator at a local research center, translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing reflections on her life with L'Orient Today since the beginning of the war in Gaza and following the cease-fire.I was speaking with my sister-in-law, Sujoud, about her work as a math teacher when I noticed tears gathering in her eyes. Her voice softened as she tried to explain how exhausted she feels, how overwhelmed — not by the pressure of work, but by the endless heartbreaking situations she faces every single day. She is no longer just a teacher. She is teaching the most fragile category created by the genocide in Gaza — orphans. Noor's last entry Diaries from Gaza: War is not just happening outside; it's written on Shahd's body ...
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 27-year-old media coordinator at a local research center, translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing reflections on her life with L'Orient Today since the beginning of the war in Gaza and following the cease-fire.I was speaking with my sister-in-law, Sujoud, about her work as a math teacher when I noticed tears gathering in her eyes. Her voice softened as she tried to explain how exhausted she feels, how overwhelmed — not by the pressure of work, but by the endless heartbreaking situations she faces every single day. She is no longer just a teacher. She is teaching the most fragile category created by the genocide in Gaza — orphans. Noor's last entry Diaries from Gaza: War is not just happening outside; it's written on Shahd's body ...
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