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L'Orient-Le Jour
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- Politics
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Diaries from Gaza: Yasmin says it's become impossible to survive in Gaza City
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 27-year-old translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing reflections on her life with L'Orient Today during the war. Twenty-seven-year-old Yasmin Emara — a dear friend of mine — is terrified for her parents, whose health has dramatically deteriorated after over 672 days of what she calls a genocidal war that has stripped them of every basic means of fear intensified after the Israeli cabinet approved a draft law on Thursday to occupy Gaza City and expel its people to the south of Gaza. Since then, you can feel a state of skepticism, anticipation and fear engulfing the city.'Not having the nutrients my body needs, the constant mental exhaustion of wondering when this nightmare will end and the physical toll of being displaced,...
L'Orient-Le Jour
11-08-2025
- General
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Diaries from Gaza: Food is back. There's movement, color, and, above all, relief
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 27-year-old translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing reflections on her life with L'Orient Today during the months of hunger — of fragile, starving bodies, children scouring rubble for a loaf of bread and civilians being killed at aid sites — Gaza's markets today looked almost surreal. Not because they were overflowing with abundance, but because they were stocked with the very basics that had been prohibited for so long.I'm usually someone who avoids crowds and noise, but today, the chaos made me smile. The streets were buzzing with energy. Market stalls brimmed with goods that felt like luxuries just days ago. Not just a headline Diaries from Gaza: 'This isn't help — it's cruelty repackaged as assistance' People raced...
L'Orient-Le Jour
28-07-2025
- Entertainment
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Diaries from Gaza: In these moments, I see a version of my daughter that war can't touch
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 26-year-old translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing reflections on her life with L'Orient Today during the war. Today she speaks of the bitterness she feels over the childhood that war has stolen from her daughter, Lya, and the rituals she puts in place to help them both forget — if only for a moment — the horrors of the Israeli aggression that destroys everything around has become my favorite time with Lya. Not because either of us is especially passionate about it. It's not about art, it's about safety. It's the only activity we can share that feels remotely normal while the world around us falls the war began, Lya hasn't lived a single normal day. Not one. She's never been to a park or a playground. She's...
L'Orient-Le Jour
25-07-2025
- Politics
- L'Orient-Le Jour
Diaries from Gaza: We are stripped of our most fundamental human dignity, our privacy
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 26-year-old translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing reflections on her life with L'Orient Today during the Gaza, we're not just being killed, or starved, or denied the right to live in being stripped of our most basic human dignity: our than 70 percent of Gaza has been turned into 'red zones' by the Israeli military — areas declared off-limits to civilians. These include our cities, our homes: Rafah, Khan Younis, Jabalia, Al-Shuja'iya. Whole neighborhoods where we once lived and laughed and prayed — gone or nearly two million of us are squeezed into the last slivers of land that haven't been bombed into ash or sealed off by tanks: Gaza City and narrow pockets of the central Strip — Deir...
L'Orient-Le Jour
22-07-2025
- General
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Diaries from Gaza: Every day, dozens of people are killed ... their only crime is being hungry.
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 26-year-old translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing reflections on her life with L'Orient Today during the period between October 2023 and May 2024 — when the Karem Abou Salem crossing was reopened for the first time — is etched in my memory with brutal clarity. I remember every second. I remember every explosion that shook the ground; every night my child, Lya, cried from hunger. Every day I watched her grow thinner while I had nothing — nothing — to give weren't just under fire. We were were days I couldn't find a drop of milk for my baby. I was breastfeeding, but my own body was starving too. I couldn't produce enough. I never felt full — not once; and neither did my child. Read Noor's last entry Diaries from...
