Water bottles by Italian company You Bottles, in collaboration with street artist Banksy, are displayed at the Ambiente homewares trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany in Feb. 2025. (Kim Cook via AP)
Ghalia Abu Moteir, whose family fled what is now Israel during the 1948 war that surrounded its creation, shelters from the current war in a tent in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, after being displaced from her home in Rafah, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Ghalia Abu Moteir, whose family fled what is now Israel during the 1948 war that surrounded its creation, shelters from the current war in a tent in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, after being displaced from her home in Rafah, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Abu Moteir remembers the few times she was able to leave Gaza over the decades of Israeli occupation.Once, she went on a group visit to Jerusalem. As their bus passed through Israel, the driver called out the names of the erased Palestinian towns they passed – Isdud, near what’s now the Israeli city of Ashdod; Majdal, now Ashkelon.They passed not far from where Wadi Hunayn once stood. “But we didn’t get off the bus,” she said.
She knows Palestinians who worked in the Israeli town of Ness Ziona, which stands on what had been Wadi Hunayn. They told her nothing is left of the Palestinian town but one or two houses and a mosque, since converted to a synagogue.She used to dream of returning to Wadi Hunayn. Now she just wants to go back to Rafah.
But most of Rafah has been leveled, including her family home, she said.
“What do we return to? To the rubble?”Andrew Tate gestures, next to his brother Tristan, outside the Bucharest Tribunal in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Andrew Tate speaks to media as he leaves in a vehicle after checking in at a police station as part of his judicial control, which requires him to appear before judicial authorities in Romania when summoned, in Voluntari, Romania, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)Andrew Tate speaks to media as he leaves in a vehicle after checking in at a police station as part of his judicial control, which requires him to appear before judicial authorities in Romania when summoned, in Voluntari, Romania, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Andrew Tate, right, and his brother Tristan, left, wait at the Court of Appeals building in Bucharest, Romania, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)Andrew Tate, right, and his brother Tristan, left, wait at the Court of Appeals building in Bucharest, Romania, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)