Palestinians buy fruit and vegetables at an improvised market in a refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, on Oct. 15, 2025, two days after a 'cease-fire' came into effect. (Photo: 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.At almost 8 p.m. yesterday Mohammad and I went to al-Saha Market on Omar al-Mokhtar Street in central Gaza to buy some essentials for Eid al-Adha. The first thing we both said when we got there was, "What’s this? This can’t be al-Saha Market."It was unrecognizable. Read more Diaries from Gaza: Ten minutes. That’s all that stood between me and becoming the news instead of reading it. Our only memories of it are from before the war. In the days approaching Eid, the streets were so packed you could barely walk. Vendors...
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.At almost 8 p.m. yesterday Mohammad and I went to al-Saha Market on Omar al-Mokhtar Street in central Gaza to buy some essentials for Eid al-Adha. The first thing we both said when we got there was, "What’s this? This can’t be al-Saha Market."It was unrecognizable. Read more Diaries from Gaza: Ten minutes. That’s all that stood between me and becoming the news instead of reading it. Our only memories of it are from before the war. In the days approaching Eid, the streets were so packed you could barely walk....
