The residents of Sheikh Radwan, a district in the north of Gaza City, are no strangers to warfare. Born and raised in the neighbourhood, Emad Jameel’s entire life has been defined by fighting. His childhood was dominated by the first and second intifada, or Palestinian uprisings, and since Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007, leading Israel to impose a near-total air, land and sea blockade, Sheikh Radwan has been repeatedly hit by airstrikes both during and outside wartime.
Through it all, however, Jameel, now 31, found solace in friends and family. But he never dreamed of a war like the one Gaza is suffering now, and he never imagined himself homeless, cast adrift from his community and ferrying his children from place to place across the besieged territory in search of ever-elusive safety.
