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UNBELIEVABLE: Ghada ageel | History Defined

Dozens of my family have been killed by Israel in Gaza, and now Ziyad, too. Only one thing gives me solace

My cousin smiled at everyone, bought my son candies, rushed to help when the bombs fell. All that ended on Friday night, says Ghada Ageel, visiting professor at the University of Alberta

The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2025

My son asks me what will be left when we return to Gaza. The answer? Only rubble and memories

My cousin used to call her home in Khan Younis ‘paradise on Earth’. Now that paradise has been lost, says Ghada Ageel, a third-generation Palestinian refugee and a visiting professor at the University of Alberta

The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2024

The impossible choice for my family in Gaza: stay and be killed together, or move and risk dying apart

‘Will I take my books and my schoolbag?’ my niece asked as her parents packed the essentials. There was no way to explain, says Ghada Ageel

The Guardian - UK · Jan 18, 2024

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My elderly relatives first fled for their lives in 1948. In Gaza right now they are walking the Nakba again

Their story is that of thousands of other Palestinians: forced to move time and time again, their homes lost or destroyed, says Ghada Ageel of the University of Alberta

The Guardian - UK · Dec 14, 2023

While the world has abandoned Gaza, its doctors have done the opposite. They are our heroes

The destruction of Palestinian hospitals adds to the trauma for the medics – whose life’s purpose is to heal, says Ghada Ageel, a third-generation Palestinian refugee

The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 2023

Messages arrive from Gaza with news of dead children. It has become a graveyard for humanity’s conscience

When the texts came through, I wish they had not. Children of friends killed; my own young relatives traumatised, says third-generation Palestinian refugee Ghada Ageel

The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2023

From my hometown in Gaza, the unthinkable news: 36 of my family members are dead

The Khan Yunis refugee camp was supposed to be in the safe zone. But nowhere is safe – the very existence of Palestinians is under attack, says Ghada Ageel, a former translator in Gaza for the Guardian

The Guardian - UK · Nov 1, 2023

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