CSM: ‘Waiting to see if I will survive’: A Gaza reporter caught in the war she’s covering ..."We no longer even bother to ask where humanity has gone."

Children jump between pools of sewage-contaminated water in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Palestine August 15, 2024- Ghada Abdulfattah

 "This week, the news that an Israeli airstrike had wrecked another shelter, this time a disused Gaza City school, was not merely depressing and shocking. It literally made me tremble.

The video footage of the aftermath filled me with fear. The charred remains of the dead scattered in pieces. Rescuers carting off bodies in blankets and bags because they had neither stretchers nor ambulances. I wanted to scream. Why must we endure such hardship, when all we seek is a life of peace and dignity? The injustice left me feeling paralyzed.

Israel said it had targeted Hamas militants, but more than 100 civilians were killed in the attack, many of them women and children.  “Why doesn’t Israel just kill all of us together and rid the world of Gaza?” one of my neighbors asked aloud in despair."   READ MORE   https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2024/0816/gaza-war-reporting-forced-evacuations

‘Waiting to see if I will survive’: A Gaza reporter caught in the war she’s covering

• By Ghada Abdulfattah Special contributor

Updated Aug. 20, 2024, 3:42 p.m. ET | Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip

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Ghada Abdulfattah, the Monitor’s Gaza correspondent, keeps her cool when she reports. But sometimes she feels like screaming. In this wrenching personal letter to readers, she voices her fear and fury at the climate of death that poisons life in Gaza. Ordered to relocate yet again, she cries from the heart: “Why must we endure such hardship? ... Who will stop this war?”