Chronic displacement and trauma burden Gaza’s elderly, but they cling to their homeland as an act of defiance.
![Kefaya Al-Assar, 73, from Jabalia in northern Gaza, in a classroom at Al Ezz Ben Abdelsalam School in Al Nusirat, [Ola al-Asi/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image00002-1770323655.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Ola Al-Asi, a Palestinian journalist based in Gaza City.
Chronic displacement and trauma burden Gaza’s elderly, but they cling to their homeland as an act of defiance.
![Kefaya Al-Assar, 73, from Jabalia in northern Gaza, in a classroom at Al Ezz Ben Abdelsalam School in Al Nusirat, [Ola al-Asi/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image00002-1770323655.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Gaza faces public health crisis amid Israel’s war, with waste, sewage and poor sanitation leading to disease outbreaks.

Palestinians fear decisions imposed from outside fail to address justice, freedom, and lived realities in Gaza.

After more than two years of a genocidal war, wounded and traumatised Palestinian children stare at an uncertain future.

Gaza’s economy has plummeted by 87 percent in two years, deepening poverty and leaving thousands without resources.
