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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Malak A Tantesh in Gaza ; photographs by Enas Tantesh

‘Gateway to hell’: young reporter’s harrowing two years in besieged Gaza

Tantesh surveys the destruction in northern Gaza
Malak Tantesh surveying the destruction in northern Gaza Photograph: Enas Tantesh/The Guardian

It is six o’clock in the morning on Saturday 7 October 2023. Half awake, I call out in a hoarse voice to my two sisters who are sleeping on their beds next to me: “Enas, Remas, wake up – you have school.”

We were not to know it yet, but this was the day when everything would change. The day when horrific events across the border in Israel would lead to a war that became a gateway to hell itself.

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