"Faten Alsourani should be enjoying making a new life for herself after arriving in Ireland to study in 2019. Instead, she's campaigning to stop the famine in Gaza as she watches her loved ones waste away before her eyes"
"For months now, on WhatsApp calls, I watch my nieces and nephews losing weight before my eyes. They are only five, nine, 12, and 14 years old - the ages at which children should be living carefree, playing and laughing, not shrinking due to hunger."
"As a Gazan woman living in Dublin, I feel guilt, shame, fear and, worst of all, hopelessness, living in the safety of Ireland, while watching my family endure hell on Earth."
A Gazan woman living in Dublin arrived in Ireland in 2019 to study and should be making a new life. She is campaigning to stop the famine in Gaza while watching loved ones waste away. She watches nieces and nephews lose weight during WhatsApp calls. The children are five, nine, 12, and 14 years old, ages when they should be carefree, playing and laughing, not shrinking from hunger. Living in safety in Ireland triggers feelings of guilt, shame, fear, and hopelessness. She channels pain into campaigning while confronting emotional conflict between safety abroad and devastation at home.
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