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Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/10/cease-fire-israel-gaza-palestine/684623/
Palestinians in Gaza Know They'll Never Return to the Life They Once Had
(Atlantic) Ghada Abdulfattah - A ceasefire is supposed to connote peace, relief, and the chance to take a breath. Yet I feel none of those things. I don't even feel that the war has stopped. Among my friends and relatives, no one seems to trust this peace. Two years of war is a long time. Hardly anyone remembers what normal feels like. We don't feel relief or a sense of safety because we know that whatever comes next will not be a return to the life we had. Gaza's streets are all rubble. Barely a house stands. People say it will take many months just to clear the debris, and longer still to restore water, electricity, even a single functioning road. All of our civil infrastructure has been ground to dust.