07/11/2025
"The ceasefire might have stopped the bombs, but we remain scattered, our lives paused, our futures uncertain."
In Gaza’s brittle ceasefire, Palestinian writer Khaled Al-Qershali reflects on a life suspended between the memory of home and the fear of losing it again.
In the first year of the war, more than 75% of Gaza's population was displaced. Wherever they fled, however, bombs continued to follow. Displacement in Gaza is not accidental, but a systematic attempt to dismantle Palestinian life, memory and continuity.
Khaled Al-Qershali writes: "Displacement is often described as a single event — a moment when people flee danger. But in Gaza, it became our state of being. For months, I felt my sense of purpose dissolving. Every day was a repetition of the same struggle: fetching water, waiting for bread, chopping firewood."
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https://www.analystnews.org/posts/to-return-home-is-to-stand-among-ruins-and-await-displacement-all-over-again