Hammam Malaka and his wife, Najia Malaka, reunited after a long separation but fighting to survive

New York Times reporters say they have interviewed more than 700 people in Gaza over the course of the war. Recently they tried to recontact as many of the people they spoke with earlier.

Among the nearly hundred they were able to reach are Hammam Malaka and his wife, Najia Malaka. The first time the Times wrote about them, they were stuck 20 miles apart, one in northern Gaza, one in southern Gaza, with Israeli troops in between. He had two of their small children, she had three.

They were able to find each other during a brief January ceasefire. But one of their children, three-year-old Seela, was killed before they reunited. 

Since Israel broke the cease-fire in March, the Times reports,  their days have been spent in a perpetual struggle against hunger and danger, which Mr. Malaka said were like “endless waves crashing over us.”

More, including a recent photo of the surviving members of the Malaka family, at The New York Times