Scared and confused, Aseel and Afaf live in a crowded displacement tent, lacking all forms of support, even food.
![Aseel and Afaf al-Eish sit inside their family’s tent in northern Gaza. Living with disabilities and celiac disease, the sisters endure displacement in a world that often overlooks their pain. [Noor Al-Halabi/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/11110-copy-1-1748846291.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Asem Al Jerjawi is a Gaza-based journalist, activist, and translator. His articles have appeared in Middle East Eye, Washington Report, Palestine Chro... nicle, Palestine Nexus, Palestine in America, Morning Star, and Mondoweiss.
Scared and confused, Aseel and Afaf live in a crowded displacement tent, lacking all forms of support, even food.
![Aseel and Afaf al-Eish sit inside their family’s tent in northern Gaza. Living with disabilities and celiac disease, the sisters endure displacement in a world that often overlooks their pain. [Noor Al-Halabi/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/11110-copy-1-1748846291.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Amid Israel’s scorched earth campaign in Gaza, young artists are trying to turn pain into hope.

I have lost my home and I feel I may be losing my homeland, too.
