When the guns fall quiet, Gaza is left with the ache of survival and the wounds that peace can’t heal.
The ceasefire brought a silence that revealed Gaza’s deepest wounds – the grief, loss and exhaustion that war had only buried.
By Refaat Ibrahim
A Palestinian writer from Gaza.
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