“This war has changed my life forever. We have been displaced repeatedly, taking away my education and my friends. The fear we live with cannot be described in words.” These are the words of 14-year-old Leanne Nahal, who at such a young age has seen five wars in Gaza and has been forced to be displaced several times. Leanne Nahal says, “At first we were able to buy food, fruits, and clothes. Able Now eight of us are forced to live in a temporary tent. I have been burdened with responsibilities in a way I never imagined.”Leen Nahal was once the most promising student of her class. , but after the war escalated at the end of 2023, their lives became completely disrupted. Many of her friends and classmates left Gaza and went abroad to continue their education. “Now I’m sitting in a tent, my books, school uniform and backpack have all disappeared,” she says. “It feels like my My future, my education and my childhood have been taken away from me.” “My dream is that this war ends and that I grow up to become a teacher of history, and a teacher of the history of Palestine and our never-ending pain. I can tell the story to everyone.” © UN Women/Suleiman Hajj The war has affected all people in Gaza, whether they are little girls like Nahal or elderly women like Thuraya al Gourani. “The outline of my life,” says Thuraya al Gourani, 85. Displacement itself has determined.” “I still remember that day in 1948, when my father hurried us to a small town situated between Hebron and Gaza We were told to flee Al Fallujah. At that time, we left everything behind and fled to Khan Yunis.” Since then, Al Gourani has seen seven wars. He said that every time his family was displaced, it was not known whether their home would be saved when they returned. He said, “Every time it was as if our dignity was under attack. The current war is the most merciless and cruel.” “And it is lasting longer than any other war.”During the devastating war in Gaza, UN Women heard the harrowing stories of countless women and girls from all walks of life. Paramedic Neveen, who works as a civil servant, has had to go through the pain of losing 80 members of her family in a single day in November 2023, but despite this she has continued her work. They have repeatedly faced displacement and horrific events, such as the destruction of Kamal Adwan Hospital and the bombing of the UNRWA shelter in Jabaliya, where they had taken refuge. © Courtesy of Amani Al Derbi A psychiatrist at the Gaza Ministry of Health, Amani worked to comfort people suffering from years of war and conflict. Before the war, his dream was to get a PhD by taking a scholarship. But Amani and her four children were killed in an Israeli airstrike in May 2024. Ibtisam uses a wheelchair, but no longer has a proper bed to sleep on, and she struggles to walk across Gaza’s destroyed, inaccessible roads. Are unable to. She has even been separated from her mother, due to a lack of resources needed to support disabled people in shelter facilities. Meanwhile, Palestinian women and girls in the West Bank are also facing serious challenges and burdens. The 49-year-old Widow Kafa Abu Harb is the mother of three children. He told the story of the difficult challenges he has faced living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank. Kafa Abu Harb says, “(Israeli) soldiers come into our homes, violate our privacy, They drag us in for questioning, and take away our children in the dark of night without any reason or warrant.” “One of my sons is still in jail, without any reason. How can we tolerate all this? Women and girls in Palestine are facing extremely cruel conditions, but they have still not given up hope. She says, “We are not They just want the right to live in peace, the right to breathe without fear.” “Palestinian women have borne the greatest burden of this suffering, yet we are still here. Still standing on our feet. All we have left is our strength.”