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‘Women Are Suffering Because They Are Women’: Gazan Journalist Bisan Owda

Twenty-five-year-old Gazan journalist Bisan Owda’s social media posts capture the everyday struggles of Gazans and the horrific impact of Israeli attacks.

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Lost Locks: Bisan had to cut her hair because it was damaged due to the lack of clean water
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Dec 19 Israel has shifted the “safe zone” again. First Khan Yunis was supposedly safe, but after continuous bombing, Palestinians are now being forced into the barren sands of al-Mawasi. We’re talking about the area of a small park or maybe an airport…The small, undeveloped zone has no infrastructure for safety or survival. There is no clean water to drink and not enough fuel to keep people warm

Dec 15 I love my hair so much! I love the gorgeous curls on my head but I couldn’t keep them. Today I cut a lot of my hair because it was damaged due to the lack of clean water and hair care products that I could not carry from my beautiful room!

One day, I will definitely get it back

No internet connection for 36 hours now, we barely have the E-sim cards connection

The ambulance and Red Cross could not reach them when they were injured, they bled to death

Dec 14 Jesus was Palestinian…Merry Christmas sisters and brothers but don’t celebrate

Dec 13 There’s no water and there’s no food. It’s been 68 days of bombing, starvation, continuous displacement…A girl sheltering in the south died because of hunger, a family in the north ate a donkey!

Dec 9 Day 64, the only safe place in Gaza now is our memories. The US veto yesterday killed our last hope to have any safe place in Gaza

Dec 8 UNICEF spokesman: 1,000 children lost their limbs due to the bombing on Gaza Strip. 1,000 children, 1,000 stories, 1,000 Questions and 1,000 fears

Dec 7 Women are suffering because they are women. Now, women in Gaza suffer from the absence of sanitary pads during their menstrual cycle

Dec 6 We’ve been through terrifying things…

Dec 4 1948-2023: The same crime, the same criminal, and the same silent audience

Dec 4 Bombing around the largest functioning hospital in Gaza Strip…Ya’rab, protect us tonight! The bombing is all around us.

Dec 4 These lights in the sky mean they will target this area tonight…I am now in the south, this is supposed to be the safe area

Nov 27 For me, I have been displaced from the north, and now during the truce. It’s not allowed for me to go back to my home, so the truce is useless. We need ceasefire!!

Nov 26 I cried for an hour, because I saw a cat looks like my cat back in my home. I am so tired, so depressed, I am sad. There is no cure for this, if I lived for 100 years, I will die sad, what we are living in Gaza, is beyond anyone’s capacity. #ceasefirenow

Nov 25 Numbers from Gaza you need to know:

-20,000 people were killed in 50 days of escalation

-7,000 of them still under the rubble

-8,000 of them are children

-all of them are civilian.

Thanks world.

#ceasefirenow  

(Compiled by Vineetha Mokkil from Twitter and Instagram)