"I Couldn't Ask if She Was Still Alive": A Girl, Her Mother, and a Bloody Night In Gaza

Comment / "I Couldn't Ask if She Was Still Alive": A Girl, Her Mother, and a Bloody Night In Gaza Locals carry out search and rescue efforts after an Israeli attack on the Ridwan family home in Rafah, Gaza, on April 20, 2024. (Jehad Alshrafi / Anadolu via Getty Images) In April, we published "The Bulldozer Kept Coming," a dispatch by Lujayn, a 14-year-old from Gaza. Months later, Lujayn is with her family in Rafah, and she is still writing.

We are proud to publish another piece by her today. This article appears in the September 2024 issue, with the headline "A Bloody Night." I am Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl who has survived many wars in Gaza, though this is the worst one I have ever experienced.

In the last week of May, my family and I had to leave the place where we were living after the occupation forces threatened to invade Rafah. It was the ninth time we'd had to move since October. At the beginning of this war, we were bombed out of our beautiful home in Gaza City,.

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