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A Palestinian writer describes his home in Gaza [1]
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Date: 2023-12-13
“My Gaza house felt like a castle. Now it is rubble” writes Atef Abu Saif on 12/11/23 in The Washington Post. Born in 1973, Atef Abu Saif has written six novels and two collections of short stories; he has also been Minister for Culture in the Palestine Authority on the West Bank since 2019. The following excerpts from his article tell the story of his home in the Gaza refugee camp of Jabalya.
He begins with the recent missile strike:
The house where I grew up, where I was born, was destroyed a little over a week ago. No one was inside at the time the Israeli missiles hit, flattening it into a perfect pile of rubble.
The memories remain.
It was in that humble concrete structure, sitting at my grandmother Eisha’s feet, that I heard my first stories. I grew up to become a writer so that I could share them with the world and revisit the life she once had in a grand villa in Jaffa. That was before the Nakba of 1948, before she came to live in the narrow little house that became my family home in the Jabalya refugee camp, having walked over hot sand with thousands of others, her young children in tow.
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