Journal of Palestine Studies: From the Editor by Sherene Seikaly

The genocide has “killed my lungs.”Footnote¹ This is how Samah al-Dahshan narrates losing her nine-year-old daughter Nasma. In one of their many displacements, the family evacuated from al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. They made their way south on al-Rashid Street. Israeli soldiers started firing. They killed Nasma. Samah rushed to her body. The bullets rained on what remained of the family. They fled. During the brief ceasefire, Samah returned to the spot hoping to find Nasma. To bury her. But “her body disappeared like smoke.”Footnote² Now, every patch of earth is Nasma’s grave. Samah is “barely able to breathe.”Footnote