Glimpses of GAZA

10/08/2025

https://erossalvatore.com/2025/07/05/marahs-story-or-the-disintegration-of-gaza/

A country is not a single entity but something that is made up of thousands of individual families, each one with their own unique story. Marah’s Story, or The Disintegration of a Country Fam…

07/08/2025

This is my most recent story that I co-authored with Gaza refugee Maryam Hasanat. Published by Dissident Voice online magazine.

With trembling hands, I gathered what remained of my family. We had been displaced more times than I can remember. Now we faced the pain of loss again Home is a piece of the past that only exists in memories. How painful it is to realize that you’ve left all that you have ever loved,

05/08/2025

A poem I edited from Gaza refugee Maryam Hasanat has been published in Dissident Voice an online magazine.

Yesterday was a heartbreak we will never forget. Two young men from our family were martyred — souls full of life, torn from us too soon. Each left behind a wife clinging to memories, and children too young to understand the weight of absence. Now they face the harsh winds of life without the warm...

30/07/2025

Baby Gaza (Memoir) - A seventeen-year-old pregnant girl struggles to stay alive in Gaza.

I edited this story by Doha Jamal, a seventeen-year-old pregnant Gaza refugee struggling to survive with her young husband in Northern Gaza. You can read Baby Gaza here. Published by Dissident Voic…

27/07/2025

This story was written by Gaza refugee Mary Hasanat and published by Dissident Voice.

I am not just a survivor, but a witness. A witness to destruction, resilience and countless stories of suffering and survival. So many stories will never be told, so many names will never be remembered. The Occupier asked us to surrender, but I don’t know what surrender means anymore. The war took...

24/07/2025

Creative Nonfiction short story published in Dissident Voice online magazine:

Medicine and Martyrs tells the story of my nearly year long friendship with Mohammed Kassab, a nineteen-year-old Gaza refugee, who hopes to become a doctor. Published by Dissident Voice magazine. D…

11/07/2025

https://erossalvatore.com/2025/03/09/the-fates-of-gaza/

Maryam Hasanat, a student of famed Palestinian author Refaat Alareer, and a Gaza a refugee tries to survive a complicated pregnancy and find freedom for her family in The Fates of Gaza, published b…

10/07/2025

https://erossalvatore.com/2025/02/21/an-october-7th-survivor-meets-a-gaza-refugee/

This is my latest article. It was supposed to be titled The Israeli and the Refugee but ended up being published with the log line: An Oct 7th Survivor Meets a Gaza Refugee. It follows Noy, whose b…

06/04/2025

https://erossalvatore.com/2025/02/04/an-israeli-soldier-and-a-palestinian-fighter-make-peace/

Former Israeli soldier Rotem Levin went from tossing grenades into a Palestinian village to living in one. Former Palestinian resistance fighter Osama Iliwat went from spending time in Israeli pris…

01/11/2024

The Greatest Man in Gaza follows Muslim refugee Omar Skaik as he tries to protect his family, help other refugees and maintain friendships with his Christian friends in Gaza. Donation link at the end of the story.

https://dissidentvoice.org/2024/11/the-greatest-man-in-gaza/

01/11/2024

My next story in the Glimpses of Gaza series has been published by Dissident Voice. It follows the trials and tribulations of Salahdeen Fares Yosuf as he struggles to care for the stray cats of Gaza while trying to stay alive during a genocide and protect himself and his family.

Nine-year-old Jana ignores the gunfire in the distance as she carries a cardboard box across the sand. The box contains her best friend: a four-month-old orange-white kitten that bears her name and cuddles with her when the bombs are falling. A few meters behind her, her twelve-year-old sister Nada....

15/09/2024

I wrote this story about Emad, a great human being, and the wonderful dog Shuhaybar, whom Emad shared his life with while his wife and child were separated from him. Please share this to your profile and with as many people as possible to help him survive and lift his spirits. His Go Fund Me link is at the end of the story.

Emad, a thirty-five-year-old Palestinian man, has a dog named Shuhaybar. He’s a small, white fluffy guy with hair hanging over his eyes. Americans call him a West Highland White Terrier. Emad calls him a friend. He looks completely out of place in Gaza, yet somehow he fits. Maybe it’s Emad’s h...