Two years after Israel’s Nuseirat ‘rescue’ success, we are still bleeding
Key takeaways
- My family survived the massacre that freed four captives and killed hundreds of innocents.
- Our home had been made uninhabitable in an attack in January, so we rented an apartment overlooking what is now called the “yellow line”.
- There were seven of us: my parents, my two sisters, 23-year-old Eman and 20-year-old Yasmin, my nine-year-old brother Abdullah, my bedridden grandmother, and me.
Why this matters: an international story with cross-border implications worth tracking.
My family survived the massacre that freed four captives and killed hundreds of innocents. Its wounds and nightmares have not left us.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo A Palestinian girl walks amid the debris a day after the deadly 'rescue' operation by the Israeli military in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip on June 9, 2024 [Eyad Baba/AFP]By Lina Ghassan Abu Zayed Published On 9 Jun 20269 Jun 2026In May 2024, after seven months of displacement and moving between tents and other people’s houses, we returned to Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Our home had been made uninhabitable in an attack in January, so we rented an apartment overlooking what is now called the “yellow line”.
There were seven of us: my parents, my two sisters, 23-year-old Eman and 20-year-old Yasmin, my nine-year-old brother Abdullah, my bedridden grandmother, and me.