Gaza Is Still Here | The Nation

Gaza has been plunged into a bloody void for months. The so-called ceasefire with Israel has not brought peace. Bombings and demolitions persist, and Israel’s growing occupation continues unabated. Since October 10, 2025, when the ceasefire was declared, more than 440 people have been killed and more than 2,500 buildings destroyed. Israel has allowed only a fraction of essential equipment needed for cooking, heating and construction to enter the Gaza Strip. Gaza is now buried under 680 million tons of rubble. Ninety percent of the population has been displaced, often multiple times. Hundreds of thousands of people live in threadbare tents.

The “ceasefire” aims to breed apathy among us; the spectacle of modern genocidal warfare has been replaced by the slow bureaucratic procedures of ethnic cleansing. Washington’s empty promises to establish “technocratic governance” in Gaza mask a colonial project imposed on a people who have no say: a people left for dead, forgotten by the world.

So this is where we come back. At the beginning of February, The Nation entrusted its website to writers from Gaza for a day. We did this to make clear that we will remain focused on Gaza and the Palestinian people. No amount of diplomatic procedure or political distortion will overcome our demand for their right to self-determination – or their right to speak for themselves.

The pieces in this series are an affirmation of this right: a testimony to Gaza’s refusal, in the face of the world’s neglect, to be exterminated.

—Rayan El Amine, Lizzy Ratner and Jack Mirkinson
 

A day for Gaza

Rayan El Amine, Jack Mirkinson, Lizzy Ratner

Today, The Nation devotes its website exclusively to the stories of Gaza and its people. That’s why.
 
 

A ceasefire in name only

Mohammed Mhawish

The language of the ceasefire has been reused in Gaza: it no longer describes a pause in violence but rather a mechanism for managing it.
 
 

The street that refuses to die

Ali Skaïk

What I saw while walking a block in Gaza.
 
 

A catalog of Gaza’s losses

Deema Hattab

Record what has been erased and make sense of what remains.
 
 

“We covered events that no human can stand”

Ola Al-Asi

Gaza’s journalists have traded their lives to tell a truth that much of the world still does not want to hear.
 
 

What Edward Teaches Us About Gaza

Alaa Alqaisi

On Palestine and the geography of disappearance.
 
 

My sister’s death still resonates within me

Asmaa Dwaima

Rewaa was killed by an Israeli bomb. His absence broke me in ways I still can’t describe.
 
 

What Gaza photographers saw

Huda Skaïk

These images are testimonies of a genocidal war, but they also represent something more: they are fragments of Gaza itself.
 
 

At the gates of tomorrow

Engy Abdelal

Faced with ever-narrowing possibilities, I return to my journal to try to dream, to imagine a future.
 
 

How to survive in a house without walls

Rasha Abou Jalal

After their home was destroyed, Rasha Abou Jalal and her family remain determined to build a new one, even if it has to be built from scratch.
 
 

What happens to educators after schools are destroyed?

Ismail Nofal

Hamada Abu Layla spent 22 years earning three college degrees. Now they’re laughing at him from a dump.