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Families returning home to bombarded areas face new health risks from war debris

People returning to places like Fallujah or Gaza work hard to rebuild their homes, clearing debris and doing rapid construction, forced to expose themselves to harmful materials that enter their bodies. Though it might seem trivial for people who have survived warfare and displacement to think of masks, vitamins, and folic acid, informed returnees do have some, albeit limited, capacity to shape the health of future generations.


| 10-04-2025

The Land of Clipped Braids

Palestinians wrote their children’s names on their arms, so that their bodies aren’t lost, so that they recognise them after they’re bombed. This is what we failed to do. We should have written our names on our bones. Under August’s sun, the blood of my people dried on the mountain, and the bodies of the murdered decomposed. We should have written our names on our bones, so that they’re recognised...


Fouad el Hassan | 23-03-2025
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