Amid the Wreckage of My Shattered Dreams – A Gaza Student’s Story

By Fatima Skaik

In that moment, I understood: We do not study for degrees—we study to prove we are alive, that we deserve to survive.

I write these words as I sit on the rubble of my home, surrounded by the wreckage of my shattered dreams. My fingers trace the remnants of what was once the wall of my room. I sift through the ashes, searching for a pen, a piece of paper—any trace…