“Hey guys, I’m still alive.” This is how 25-year-old Bisan Owda publishes most of his live feeds on Instagram. But after 16 days of Israeli bombing, the director confided to her 665,000 subscribers: “My greatest fear is not dying, but surviving.”
Like some 50,000 displaced people, Bisan Owda and his parents found refuge in and near Shifa Hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip. They are among more than a million Gazans who have been displaced since Hamas carried out a massacre in southern Israel on October 7 that killed at least 1,400 people.
The Palestinian group’s terrorist attack sparked a response from Israel, which has since carried out a bombing campaign in the enclave. At the same time, the Israeli government ordered residents to evacuate the north of the coastal strip.
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