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Khaled Al-Qershali

Khaled Al-Qershali is a literature and English language graduate now working as a journalist in Gaza

<p>‘“I do not know how I will survive this winter,” Osama told me. “The heavy rains have not arrived yet, but even so, rain is already falling inside the tent”’</p>
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Winter in Gaza has washed away the memory of my childhood comforts

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