'Death Is Chasing Us at Every Corner': Displaced Persons in Rafah Keep Asking: Where Else Can We Go?
Gazans share the uncertainty and existential fears of over a million residents, all living in the shadow of an impending Israeli invasion of the territory's southernmost refuge
The night that the Israeli army rescued the hostages Louis Har and Fernando Marman in Rafah was one of the most difficult nights of the war for Noor, a displaced resident from Gaza City. "I covered my children with a blanket and prayed. I heard the sounds of distant gunfire, and we didn't know what was happening outside," she wrote to Haaretz the next day. "I told my husband, 'We're going to die tonight.' I hugged my children, protected them with my body and we waited in silence."