“There is no space left for us in Gaza except this cemetery. We live beside the dead,” said one Palestinian.

When I went to meet Rasha Swerki, I couldn’t find a place to sit except for the tombstones. So I stood during the whole interview. Swerki, 41, lives with her two sisters in a tent set up on the edge of Sheikh Radwan Cemetery, west of Gaza City. She cooks on a hearth among the graves and spreads her laundry on a tightrope among the gravestones. I asked Swerki why she chose to live in a…

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