Back to Point Zero: Two Years of War and Survival

By Malak Radwan

Here we are again. Time has folded in on itself, collapsing the distance between then and now into a suffocating present. Two years ago, on October 30th, a day that smelled of smoke and fear, the world was split in two along Salah al-Din Road. To the north, a trap. To the south, exile. And in Jabalia camp, we were the stubborn stones that refused to be moved, my family and I choosing the familiar terror of home over the unknown terror of flight.

We remember the…