When she wakes each morning on the floor of a UN school in southern Gaza, Eman Basher checks that her children are unharmed. Whenever she is woken by a nearby airstrike, she takes it as a good sign that she heard it – the survivors of other strikes tell her they did not hear the explosion.
Basher’s husband is studying abroad, so over the past month of bombardment in Gaza she has been singlehandedly keeping their three children safe, sheltered, fed and distracted from the bombing.
