‘Home is just a distant memory’: War and safety in Gaza

A mother talks about life during the ongoing conflict

There is a war happening in Gaza and it is a war on women and children.

Since the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, in which some 1,200 people were murdered and about 250 taken hostage, tens of thousands of Gazans have been killed, the majority of them women and children.  Far more now face food insecurity, even famine.

Half the population of Ga…