As I write this, I’m sitting in a bare, grey room surrounded by the stifling August heat in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. The sun’s harsh morning rays pierce through the windows. There are no curtains. Those, like so much else that should be mundane, have become a luxury.

In fact, there are no furnishings in this room at all. Just the worn-out floor and my notebook beside me.

This is the second time I have come to Deir al-Balah as a displaced person during Israel’s unsparing war on Gaza, which has now been going on for more than 10 months. The first time I came was last October, shortly after the war began…

Source: The New Humanitarian | I have been forcibly displaced 12 times by Israel’s war in Gaza