"The smoke from the bombing blinded me completely, she said."
"Even when I want to move inside the tent, I wait for someone to help me cross, she said. I tried to enter the tent once, hit my head and fell, so now I feel the ground with my feet to know what's in front of me."
"The most precious thing in life is sight. Every time I struggle to reach something I need, I start crying, Abu Jarad said."
"I decided to open a business to provide for my family. I opened a bakery and started to grow it. I started baking ma'amoul [filled butter cookies] and bread, she said one month into a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. I need to keep going because the situation here is so hard, she added."
Warda Abu Jarad, 51, lost her sight when debris and smoke from a bombing of her house struck her eyes. She lives in a tent in Deir el-Balah and needs someone to guide her when moving; she sometimes feels the ground with her feet after a fall. Her daughter provides daily support. Emotionally affected, she frequently cries when struggling to find items. To provide for her family she opened a bakery, baking ma'amoul and bread and trying to expand the business. Small improvements followed a fragile ceasefire on October 10, but aid remains limited and many remain wounded since October 2023.
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