“I feel empathy for them, solidarity, love for God. I want to do something,” she said.
Destruction outside is seen from a damaged bedroom of the Nassar family home in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Destruction outside is seen from a damaged bedroom of the Nassar family home in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
This has been the struggle for displaced Palestiniansunder the nearly month-old: To re-create some bit of normal lives amid the death and destruction left by 16 months of Israeli bombardment and ground offensives against Hamas fighters.
Khalid Nassar, 61, sits with his wife, Khadra Abu Libda, 59, and his grandchildren for lunch, with fabric covering the hole in a wall of their destroyed house in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Khalid Nassar, 61, sits with his wife, Khadra Abu Libda, 59, and his grandchildren for lunch, with fabric covering the hole in a wall of their destroyed house in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Coming home after months — or more than a year — of living in tents or other shelters, families have no means to do any serious rebuilding. So they find little ways to settle in.
Apartment buildings that were reduced to hollowed-out skeletons have been draped with colorful bed linens serving as walls — as if the houses have been turned inside-out. Families dig chunks of concrete and mangled metal out of the interior to make them semi-habitable. Rooms look like fragmented movie sets, with furniture arranged in any intact corner, while the remaining walls are shattered.A pilgrim rests next to a replica of the Black Christ sitting on a car hood in Portobelo, Panama, before dawn Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, during a festival celebrating the iconic statue that was found on the shore in 1658. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A pilgrim rests next to a replica of the Black Christ sitting on a car hood in Portobelo, Panama, before dawn Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, during a festival celebrating the iconic statue that was found on the shore in 1658. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A
parade in Rio de Janeiro will present the story of a trans woman nearly burned at the stake in the 16th century, highlighting the ongoing violence against transgender people in, which has the world’s highest reported trans homicide rate.