2014 marked another deadly year in Gaza, when the Israeli military killed 2,200 Palestinians, over half of whom were civilians according to a United Nations report. Aburamadan and her then-husband live-streamed the shelling from their 11th-floor apartment, sharing with the world what mainstream media wouldn't.
The point of our work, which we posted on Twitter and Facebook, was to make it more difficult for people around the world to say, 'I didn't know,' she wrote in The Atlantic in 2015.
I wanted to embrace my perspective as a refugee, she says. Earlier this year, she curated an exhibition at Refugee Eye called Gaza: Between Life and Loss, featuring photographs and illustrations by Palestinian artists.
The sound of Israeli drones incessantly hovering overhead is terrifying, but the bombs - and their promise to bring either an explosion or death - are worse, she wrote.
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