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My name is Yusra Salem Abu Awad, and I am 63 years old. The occupation took the lives of three of my grandchildren who fled to Al Shati Camp, denying me the chance to bid them farewell. They were buried in mass graves in Gaza City.

I am a Palestinian woman, 80 years old, born before the Nakba in 1948. I was 4 years old when Palestine was occupied. I live with my deaf children and 27 grandchildren in my house on the eastern border separating us from our occupied lands. My family has been in danger all our lives because of our proximity to the border, but I consider this place my life and I feel a strong connection to it. Our demand is the liberation of our homeland and our return to our homes destroyed by the occupation during this oppressive war.

My name is Shaymaa Ali Al-Eisswei, and I am 56 years old. The occupation arrested my husband during its invasion of the city of Hamad, north of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. We were besieged in our shelled apartment for several days. My dream is for all prisoners to be released from the occupation's prisons.

My name is Sa’id Khamees Al-Halabi, I am 12 years old. I own my own trampoline business at an UNRWA school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, which shelters thousands of displaced people. I make little money, and every day, I know I could be the next martyr. My dream is for smiles to return to all the children of Gaza. 

My name is Ali Alowisi, and I am 29 years old. My mother dreamed of traveling and undergoing kidney transplant surgeries. My mother tried her best to be patient, believing that she might be able to travel soon, live her life normally, and overcome the disease, but she died complaining to God about the injustice of the occupation and the world's abandonment of the suffering of patients in Gaza.

My name is Najla Hani Al-Kafarnah, and I am 28 years old. We were displaced from our home on the second day of the war on Gaza on October 8, 2023. My husband was martyred on the third day of the war, leaving me alone with the responsibility of raising three children and taking care of them. I dream of providing security and safety for my children, and for the genocide we are facing to end soon, and for the life of humiliation we are living in to end.

My name is Mohammed Abdul Jabbar Abu Seif. I was 15 years old during the occupation of Palestine in 1948. Now, I am 91 years old, and I know that this war is larger than 1948 Nakba. My testament to my children and grandchildren is to never leave Gaza.

My name is Ikram Talaat Ahmed. I am 29 years old. This is the story of our great loss caused by the Israeli occupation during their war on the Gaza Strip, and my resistance to the occupation through education.

My name is Fidaa Abdullah Al-Shakhreet, I am 32 years old, from Beit Hanoun. On the fifth day of the war, my husband was martyred. I have now become both a mother and a father to my children.

My name is Akram Abdul Nabi Al-Ajrami. I am 61 years old. I used to own a beautiful house in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Now, I spend my time organizing recreational and educational activities for children and all residents of the tents. This is my daily life as a displaced person living in a tent in the city of Deir al-Balah.

My name is Nasreen Naeem Al-Hilu, and I am 47 years old, from Gaza City. My dream is for the war to end, to return to my home and rebuild it again, and for my Lord to grant me the strength to raise my orphaned grandchildren, educate them well, and protect them as they are the trust of my martyred sons.