Alaa’s sad Mother’s Day after Israel’s war on Gaza killed her children
Al JazeeraA mother and poet finds herself lost for words to process the loss of her four children this Mother’s Day. A mother who has borne the pain of separation from her children, wept at the sight of them slipping into malnutrition and stayed up all night to try to reassure them that they were “safe” as Israel’s planes continued to drop bombs overhead. Looking around with bloodshot eyes, she recites her children’s names: “Yamen, eight years old. Yamen, Orchid, Kanan and Carmel While speaking to Al Jazeera about Mother’s Day, Alaa talks about her children in the present tense. She can get her older siblings to do what she wants.” ‘What can a grieving mother say?’ Alaa, who is also a poet, is a teacher in Gaza and had been trying to put together a plan to get her children out of Gaza and move them to Dubai for a better future.
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These Palestinian mothers in Gaza gave birth Oct. 7. Their babies have known only war
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These Palestinian mothers in Gaza gave birth October 7; their babies have known only war
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