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L'Orient-Le Jour
11-08-2025
- Politics
- L'Orient-Le Jour
Diaries from Gaza: 'Aren't we already under occupation?'
Noor Alyacoubi, 27, a translator and media coordinator at a research center, has not left Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023. She shares with L'Orient Today Gaza residents' mixed feelings and suspicions of Israeli actions and months of siege, starvation, and empty markets, goods are suddenly flowing back into the Strip. Crossings once locked tight are now open to commercial trucks. In Gaza, this rare moment of relief, however, is colliding with a wave of fear. As people queue for food and supplies, they are also hearing louder and louder talk from Israel about 'occupying' many here, the word is bewildering — even infuriating. 'Aren't we already under occupation?' everyone in Gaza City asks. They control our borders, our air, our sea, our lives. What more do they mean by occupation?The contradiction is stark. In official...
L'Orient-Le Jour
20-07-2025
- General
- L'Orient-Le Jour
Noor Alyacoubi from Gaza: In this world, even the life of a donkey is worth more than ours
Noor Alyacoubi, 27, a translator and media coordinator at a research center, has not left Gaza since the first days of the war between Hamas and Israel. She tells L'Orient-Le Jour about her shock after hearing on an Israeli channel that the army allegedly stole donkeys from Gaza to evacuate them to France, where they would be has been 653 days. I've repeated it to myself so many times that it doesn't even seem real anymore. More than 600 days of hunger, fear, cold and waiting — for something, anything, to change. But nothing changes. We are still trapped. Still besieged. We continue to see our lives reduced to the size of a tent, a ration, a continues to perfect violence. Famine, bombings, displacements — all of it is systematic. And the world? The world continues to watch. In silence. No rescue missions. No...
