Thread by @ChristineJameis

"Now that the bombing has ended, international attention likely will too, but the pain of Gaza won’t stop. Children will have lifelong trauma from the war, families will have no homes to return to, and many will either care for a wounded loved one or mourn another or both.

The pain of young Gazans started well before the 11 days of violence. Ahmed's sister, Alaa, has never left Gaza. The 33-year-old mother of three, who, like her brother asked that we use only her first name to protect her privacy, says that when

she sees people on TV traveling or going to restaurants, she envies them. There are few jobs, so she and her family have no money and she accepts that she won’t be able to buy things like nice clothes for her daughters. She says she is used

to having electricity for only a few hours a day and to drinking salty water. “I cannot step out of this trap,” Alaa told me. “We are in a prison. Gaza is a big prison.” Abraham Gutman