Opinion: How I survived Israel's genocidal war

I had come to terms with the idea that I might never reach this moment - writing an end-of-war article.

When I grabbed this laptop, one of the few things I managed to take with me while evacuating my home in Gaza City on 13 October 2023, I knew it would be used to document countless massacres - but at the time, I did not contemplate the end of this war.

Yet here I am. I have managed to survive, along with some of my fellow journalists, who endured a war that seemed intent on targeting us.

But survival has come at a cost. The meanings of life and death have shifted forever.

Over the past 15 months, I have been forcibly displaced across three shelters in the central and southern Gaza Strip. The farthest was about a 40-minute drive from my home. Throughout this time, death has felt closer than the home I left behind.

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