At 95, Fatema Obaid has endured daily Israeli bombardment, starvation and the loss of 70 family members.
Yet the Palestinian grandmother, who survived the 1948 Nakba, refused to leave Gaza City when ordered to do so by the Israeli military during the 2023 genocide.
… Obaid is among the few remaining witnesses of the 1948 Nakba in Gaza who have lived through the ongoing genocide.
Since October 2023, Israeli attacks have killed at least 4,813 elderly Palestinians.
Many others have died from hunger, untreated illnesses, and the collapse of Gaza’s healthcare system amid Israel’s blockade and repeated forced displacement orders.
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