Inside displacement camps across Gaza, thousands of Palestinian women are rebuilding their lives amid loss, hunger and heavy responsibility after losing their husbands in the Israeli war on the enclave.
Among them are Duaa Al-Saudi and Shorouq Abu Sukran, who now carry burdens that once belonged to entire families.
One is raising four children alone after her husband was killed. The other lost both her husband and her legs in separate Israeli attacks and now relies on her elderly mother for daily care.
Their experiences reflect a wider reality across Gaza, where widows are left to secure food, medicine, shelter and schooling for their children as living conditions collapse and humanitarian aid dwindles.
A woman reacts as she mourns over the body of a victim killed in a reported Israeli airstrike on a police station in the Al-Mawasi district, during a funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Palestine, June 7, 2026. (AFP Photo)
