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'We exist in constant darkness, the world illuminated only by the flashes of missiles'
Salma Hamad in the Los Angeles Times
"My life as a 17-year-old in Gaza was marked by the predictable anxieties and aspirations of a student applying to university," until war broke out, says Salma Hamad in the Los Angeles Times. Now we've been forced to flee our home to escape Israel's bombing. "I am not a terrorist," just a student, sister, daughter. But "I feel that I have been sentenced to death." Please, end the bombing. "Let the children of Gaza dream again."
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