The Nakba never ended for Palestinians, I’m living it in Gaza
After more than two years of displacement, horror and loss from Israel's genocide, Huda Skaik explains why the Nakba never ended for Palestinians in Gaza. Narrated Huda Skaik In Gaza, we have learned that home can vanish in a split second. And yet we are expected to rebuild it over and over again, as though we have unlimited strength and are somehow unmoved by the trauma of genocide, writes Huda Skaik. [GETTY] I did not inherit the Nakba as a memory. It has consumed my entire existence. I grew up hearing about 1948 as history—something that happened to my grandparents, something studied in school, an event of mourning marked every 15 May. I naively thought of the Nakba as a story of loss that had been and gone. I was wrong. As a child, I used to wonder how someone could ever live without a home to shelter them. I could not imagine it. At least, until this became a harsh and painful reality for all of us in Gaza. In fact, in recent years, many of us have lost our homes and been displaced several times over. Of course, this was Israel’s intention. Losing our home makes us Palestinians feel even more uprooted; it is another way to disconnect us from our homeland. After all, a home is not just a set of walls and a roof. It is the quiet certainty that you belong somewhere. It is safety without negotiation. It anchors the most precious memories—the corner where...
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