The massive loss of life has wiped out swaths of family lines, Palestinians say.
Palestinians walk past the rubble of a building destroyed in overnight Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Apr. 25, 2024., she said she was "horrified and immediately concerned" about what Israel's retaliation would mean for the Gaza Strip where part of her family resides.
Badr said she has lost 15 family members in the airstrikes, including her grandmother, three aunts, two uncles and seven cousins. In Israel, at least 1,700 people have been killed and 8,700 others injured in the war, according to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "Every song, every dance, every recipe, every expression is itself a form of resistance against our erasure and our obliteration," said Tawil-Souri. "Culture is also not just simply what is being done in the moment, but what connects us across these sorts of timeframes."
He continued, "The sheer amount of destruction to the infrastructure is just unimaginable. And yet, even up until the war, it was a beautiful place – still with the blockade, with the restrictions, with all of the pain that people have endured as a result of Hamas' control over the Gaza Strip, as a result of the multiple wars that we've experienced in the last decade and a half.
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