Hamaduna survived two attacks during her displacement, escaping with nothing but her life.
The first attack occurred as she was making her way from the south to the north; the Israeli army bombed a bus while she and others were walking. The second happened while she was working at Al-Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital, where an airstrike targeted a journalists’ tent.
“When I left Gaza, I left behind everything—my home, my work, my entire world,” she said.
Today, Hamaduna returns to what remains of the Nasr neighbourhood, now reduced to rubble. She is among 650,000 displaced people making this journey, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Since the war began, over 1.93 million people out of Gaza’s 2.3 million population have been displaced, each carrying their own story of loss and resilience.
They want to return home, to Gaza.