Every Palestinian father faces the impossible task of trying to create a sense of safety in a place where there is none.

In Gaza, where I live, the Israeli occupation has stripped fathers of the most basic promises of fatherhood. A father cannot promise his children a safe place, because the place they flee to may be bombed only hours later. He cannot promise them a meal at the end of the day, because food has become uncertain. Even when they ask him whether they will stay alive, he must answer while not…

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