Ruwaida Amer

A moth­er and poet finds her­self lost for words to process the loss of her four chil­dren this Moth­er’s Day.

Two moth­ers re­count how hunger took hold of their chil­dren and what they do to try to make sure they sur­vive some­how.

In Rafah’s hor­rif­i­cal­ly crowd­ed camps, chil­dren find one bright spot of play and smiles, up in the skies above.

Gaza par­ents putting white PPE cov­er­alls left over from the COVID pan­dem­ic on their kids, hop­ing they’ll keep them warm.

Un­ac­com­pa­nied chil­dren in the war-torn en­clave are reg­is­tered as ‘un­known’, or as ‘wound­ed child, no sur­viv­ing fam­i­ly’.

The loss of these stead­fast com­pan­ions has left deep scars on the hearts of many Pales­tini­ans in Gaza.

Killed by an Is­raeli bomb on the fam­i­ly home in Gaza, Baraa left be­hind bro­ken hearts and a sev­en-month-old daugh­ter.

A sweet, smil­ing boy who was his par­ents’ whole world is now gone along with them.

Women and girls rely on this cov­er-up gar­ment to help them face the most dif­fi­cult mo­ments of Is­rael’s war on Gaza.

Al Jazeera’s cam­era­man in Gaza bled to death af­ter be­ing hit dur­ing an Is­raeli air raid; medics could not reach him.