Women in Gaza tell their stories of loss and grief

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Inshirah Darabeh has just one thought on her mind as she prepares to leave the home of her in-laws near Deir el-Balah and travel to her home in Gaza City: finding the body of her daughter, Maram, and giving her a dignified burial, Al Jazeera reports.

“I am not going back to find my home, all I want is to find her grave and put her name on a tombstone,” she says. Inshirah, 55, will walk more than 10km through rubble and bomb craters to reach her home. She thinks it will take at least three hours.

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A drone view shows Palestinian women walking amid the rubble of destroyed houses and buildings, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 22.— Reuters
A drone view shows Palestinian women walking amid the rubble of destroyed houses and buildings, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 22.— Reuters

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