The new normal in Gaza: ‘I Share a Tent With 10 Other People’

As the bombs rained down and rockets soared through the sky in Gaza on October 7, 2023, any sense of normality and comfort vanished overnight (Picture: Salah Al-Din Obeida /Theirworld)

When war broke out in Gaza three years ago, Haneen Hijazi was spending an ordinary evening at home.

She had been helping her eldest daughter Hawa revise for a social studies exam and in the middle of baking sweet treats in the kitchen for her son Saif to take to school.

‘It was a beautiful day,’ Haneen tells Metro.

But then, as bombs began to rain down and rockets soared through the sky, any sense of normality an...