Displaced in Gaza

Stories from the Gaza Genocide

Yousef M. Aljamal, Norma Hashim, Noor Nabulsi, Zoe Jannuzi

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9798888905203
• eBook ISBN:
  9798888905333
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

A powerful collection of testimonies from Palestinians facing genocide and displacement in Gaza with hope and resistance.

Displaced in Gaza aims to raise global awareness of how violent displacement has impacted the lives of Palestinians—students, mothers, fathers, grandparents, children, educators, and those who already survived the Nakba of 1948. In Gaza, 2.3 million Palestinians have been subjected to starvation, mass destruction, and targeted killing. Yet they endure.

This book is a commitment to the longstanding Palestinian tradition of storytelling, documenting both the horror of the genocide and the resilience of the Palestinian people. The stories in this collection are not merely accounts of suffering, they are assertions of humanity, resistance, hope, and the unbreakable bond that ties Palestinians to their homeland.

Displaced in Gaza is a collaboration between the American Friends Service Committee and the Hashim Sani Center for Palestine Studies at Universiti Malaya.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Caring for Two Orphaned Children in Gaza
• I Lost My Son, My Support in This Life
• Israel Killed Ten Members of My Family in One Airstrike
• The Occupation Killed My Grandchildren and Dispersed My Family
• I Lost My Beautiful Father at 12 Years Old
• Three Days Without Food or Water
• My Husband Was Martyred, and There Is No Body: My Story of Pain Caused by the Israeli Occupation
• The Occupation Arrested My Sick Husband and We Live in Constant Suffering
• The Occupation Killed My Husband and Left Me with Our Three Children
• The Stolen Childhood of Palestinian Children
• Over 100 Displaced People Have Sheltered in My Home Since the Beginning of the War
• My Mother Returned Home to Die: The Injustices Against Elderly Patients in the Gaza Strip
• The Need to Obtain Water Is the Greatest Suffering We Are Exposed to in the Displacement Tents
• My Husband Was Martyred While Searching for Food for Us
• The Occupation Killed Every Member of My Family by Bombing Our Home
• Displaced in 1948 and Today, Surviving Another Nakba and Genocide
• Under Siege in Khan Younis
• Teaching 200 Children in Displacement Camps: How I Turn Displacement Tents into Schools
• Today, I Sell Chips, but Tomorrow, I Will Be a Doctor
• Widowed on the Fifth Day of the War
• Israel Killed My Daughter on Her Third Birthday
• Creating Joy Despite Displacement
• Providing Medical Services Under Impossible Conditions
• Raising My Martyred Son’s Children
• The Israeli Occupation Steals the Dreams of Palestinian Students
• Birth and Death Under Israeli Bombs
• Only My Brother and I Survived the Bombing of Our Home
• Remember Us
• Acknowledgments
• Back Cover