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‘Never felt truly safe’: Palestinian woman describes displacement

Summer Aljamal, a Palestinian woman who works with Medical Aid for Palestinians, and her family have spent nearly a year displaced from their home in Rafah, Al Jazeera reports.

“Throughout that time, my family and I have had to move multiple times,” she said in a video shared by the organisation.

“We were never able to settle, never able to feel truly safe.”

She described returning to Rafah during the short-lived ceasefire in Gaza, which ended on March 18, and seeing that her home was “seriously damaged but somehow still standing”.

“Today, we live with the unbearable uncertainty of not knowing what’s next. We do not know if we will ever be able to go back, or if the place we once called home will still be there.”

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