Yousef al-Mashharawi, father of three with nowhere to go

Yousef al-Mashharawi is a 32-year-old photographer and film-maker with two daughters and a son sheltering with family in the Nasser district of Gaza City.

He knows the risks of remaining are rising steeply. “The fighter jets and helicopters do not stop firing. Last night was terrifying,” Mashharawi said. “I haven’t exactly ‘decided’ to stay, but the truth is, I have nowhere else to go,” he said. The family was displaced to southern Gaza earlier in the war and he has no wish to go back.

“The army claimed it was a ‘humanitarian zone’, but that was completely false. It was the opposite. There were always strikes happening there, and they are still happening,” he said.

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