‘I woke up and there was no water’: Gaza’s human rights defenders in their own words | Mary Lawlor

A UN special rapporteur shares the stories of those trying to record the horrors of Gaza even as they live through them

“Yesterday I talked to a mother of a child who was born and died in the war.”

“Every day I look at my child, who instead of going to school is going to fetch water, and instead of playing football is hanging around in areas where corpses are lying.”

“We are all on death row in Gaza now.”

These are some of the painful statements I hear during an online meeting with 10 Palestinian human rights defenders (HRDs) in Gaza.