“Every moment I connect my life now to those years after the Nakba,” says 85-year-old Fatima Ibrahim Khalfallah. “This Nakba is more terrifying, more deadly, more destructive. . . The same hunger, thirst, and fear — but multiplied many times over.”

Ismail Atiya Nasir al-Din, 91, sits amid the rubble of his destroyed home in Gaza, displaced for a second time in his life after surviving the Nakba of 1948. (Photo courtesy of the author)“Every moment I connect my life now to those years after the Nakba," says 85-year-old Fatima Ibrahim Khalfallah. "This Nakba is more terrifying, more deadly, more destructive. . . The same hunger, thirst, and fear — but multiplied many times over.”

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