Hani Almadhoun, director of philanthropy at UNRWA USA. ‘At first it was the death of a good friend, someone who was in the US on a Fulbright, then it was cousins, then more cousins, then it was my sister-in-law’s entire family.’Photograph: Eman Mohammed/The Guardian
Hani Almadhoun braces himself whenever he hears his iPhone ping, the sound now a harbinger of bad news from his family in Gaza.
On Thanksgiving, it was a Facebook notification with a message that his 17-year old nephew had been shot in the head by a sniper.
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