Fatima al-Zahra Sahweil, “running from death to death”

Fatima al-Zahra Sahweil, weighing the danger of staying in Gaza City with her four children against the danger of leaving

Israeli bombs shake the ground under Fatima al-Zahra Sahweil and her four children in Gaza City but fleeing could expose them to worse.

“I don’t own a tent to give us shelter, and they are too expensive to buy. I would not be able to take all of the belongings and supplies I have already bought several times before,” Sahweil said. “Then there is the suffering we would face in searching for water and the lack of empty spaces to stay in. So if I leave, I would simply be going into the unknown.”

She says her family has already been displaced 19 times.

“There is not a single day without bombings and deaths in the south, even in the so-called humanitarian zones that the army declared. So, would I just be running from death to death? What difference would that make?”

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