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The Families of Gaza: Sumud as Collective Endurance
Introduction Since October 2023, Israel’s genocide has fueled two persistent and deeply polarizing narratives about Gaza, organized around a stark binary and circulated across Palestinian communities and globally. On one side, Gaza is positioned as unconquered: a place that did not surrender, whose population endured unprecedented violence without capitulation, and where the Israeli regime’s declared war objectives were not formally achieved. On the other, Gaza is described as a space of near-total destruction: vast areas depopulated and designated as red zones, entire cities reduced to rubble, tens of thousands killed or disabled, and social life pushed to the brink of annihilation. This binary circulates relentlessly in everyday conversation, on social media, in political commentary, and within families themselves. It is neither false nor superficial; both narratives capture real and simultaneous dimensions of Gaza’s reality. Yet neither, on its own, can fully account for how Palestinians have endured, remained, and experienced the fragmentation and reassembly of their lives under conditions of genocidal violence. Within this unresolved tension, dominant interpretations of Gaza’s survival collapse into a false dichotomy. Survival is framed either as heroic resistance with limitless endurance or as mere necessity, thereby stripping people of political agency and reducing them to passive victims with no alternatives. This commentary argues that such framing constitutes both an analytical and a political error. We cannot understand Gaza’s endurance through a binary that casts Palestinians, individually or collectively, as either heroic in their resistance or passive victims. Rather, we must approach it through a decolonial conception of sumud (steadfastness): a historically situated, relational, and materially conditioned practice of collective endurance that emerges, shifts, and persists within ongoing colonial violence. Reclaiming Sumud: A Decolonial Framework In the summer of 2003, on the wall of a dark cell in the notorious al-Moscobiyya interrogation center in Jerusalem, a prisoner wrote, “Beating does not kill, and confession is betrayal.” Beneath it, another prisoner later added, “Beating does not kill, but it hurts.” Palestinians held in al-Moscobiyya when these graffiti inscriptions appeared were overwhelmingly engaged in armed resistance, already committed to forms of struggle premised on sacrifice and endurance. Yet, while the two inscriptions fr...
Gaza: Mothers face triple threat of famine, displacement and loss of ...
Amid torn tents and exhausted children, mothers in the Gaza Strip are facing an increasingly harsh humanitarian reality marked by hunger, displacement and the loss of children and husbands. In overcrowded displacement camps, where teared tents stand beside the memory of destroyed homes, childhood has become overshadowed by hunger and fear. Many mothers have lost both their children and husbands, while struggling to survive in extremely difficult conditions. On Mother’s Day, marked on Sunday in several countries including Turkey, Anadolu highlighted the suffering of mothers living in displacement camps in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. Many of the women are trying to survive after losing family members and homes, while living in conditions that fall far below basic human dignity.
Football on ruins: Gaza's orphans find refuge on the pitch
Mohammed was at home on the morning of October 11, 2024, with his parents and siblings in the Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza, when without warning an Israeli warplane struck, bringing his ...
UNRWA Situation Report #221 on the Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza ...
Operational implications and humanitarian response Around 11,000 Palestinian UNRWA personnel continue to provide services and assistance to people in Gaza. In the occupied West Bank, UNRWA also plays a central role with over 4,000 of the Agency's Palestinian personnel providing education, health, and other services to Palestine Refugees.
