21 March 2024, The Tablet

‘We choose life, despite being surrounded by death’

by George Antone

A Gaza diary

‘We choose life, despite being surrounded by death’

A stairwell is a makeshift air raid shelter.
PHOTOS: COURTESY OF FELLOWSHIP AND AID TO THE CHRISTIANS OF THE EAST.

 

With his wife Nisreen and their three children, a Caritas aid worker has lived inside the compound of the only Catholic church in Gaza for the past six months. Extracts from his reports and interviews tell a story of increasing fear, desperation and resolve.

 

 

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