Born in War, Buried by It: Naya’s Short Life Under the Shadow of Israel’s Gaza Genocide

In Gaza, grief has no time to settle before it’s torn open again.

Naya was just a year and three months old. A child who had only begun to speak, to laugh, to grasp the world around her, and yet, she had already seen more death than most see in a lifetime.

A year ago, an Israeli airstrike hit her family’s home. The strike tore through the building, opening a massive hole between two floors.

In what can only be described as divine intervention, Naya’s clothes caught on a piece…