Gaza is now the world’s deadliest place for aid workers, who are providing urgent care to 1.9 million internally displaced Palestinians.
, who are providing urgent care to 1.9 million internally displaced Palestinians. Many have lost loved ones themselves yet continue to support others despite the risk
Our work exposes us to many violations and a feeling of disbelief. Imagine that you are going to help people but you think that you will not return to see your children and loved ones. This is a terrifying feeling that makes you live in conflict: between protecting yourself and your family, and your humanitarian duty that requires you to go out and help.
At every moment, I expected that they would bomb the house. After the sixth month, I was overcome by fear for my children because of how much we see outside and on TV. This forced me to leave, to go to Egypt with my daughter and secure a place for the rest of the family to follow. But the invasion of Rafah happened before my young sons came from Gaza to Egypt.
In this war, women have lost their privacy, their dignity and their humanity. Some of them have been subjected to sexual attack and sexual harassment, some of them have been subjected to obscene abuse, some of them have lost their husbands, their sons, their brothers. Some of them have lost everything. They have lost their entire family and their sources of livelihood and have become completely dependent on others.
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