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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ziad in Gaza

Gaza diary part 45: ‘I can’t believe I am in a car – I ask the driver what he uses for fuel’

A donkey drawing a cart moves past the ruins of Palestinian houses destroyed in Israeli strikes.
‘For over three months, the main means of transportation has been by animals or on foot.’ Photograph: Reuters

Saturday 3 February

8am A decision that you are forced to make is not a decision. That was my thought while my sister and I waited for the man who was coming to take Manara. It kills me that we are going to send her away, but we have no option. In addition to the fact that she is pregnant and might give birth soon – which is something we are not prepared for logistically or emotionally – her ruined eye still bleeds from time to time, which means she needs a surgical intervention the minute the whole nightmare is over.

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