For hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, last
summer’s nightmare has become an ongoing reality. Maha Abu Mutlaq, a
17-year-old high school student, told B’Tselem of the reality she must
now deal with: “The mood in Khuza’ah is terrible and makes me not want
to study. The streets and houses are in ruins. Wherever you go you see
wreckage and pictures of the dead on walls and doors. When the school
year began, it was very hard for me to concentrate. I kept thinking
about our life before the war and how we’re homeless now. The war forced
us into a terrible reality.