Gaza endures and Gazans will rebuild if we support them

JVL Introduction

Gaza will, at some point be rebuilt from the devastating levels of destruction: this writer states that: “Israel has stolen or destroyed every home that was ever mine to claim: my grandparents’ village of Deir Sunaid, the house in Jabalia refugee camp where I grew up, and most recently my family’s home in Gaza City. The homes of my uncles, my aunts, my friends are gone. The kindergarten I attended. Every school I knew. Even the university.”

Yet Gaza lives; it is a place of lived experiences, connections and history and not an “empty land waiting to be filled with someone else’s idea of progress” as the Board of Peace (sic) seems to think. Some places have largely survived and others can be reconstructed; not to provide and service tourist hubs that ignore or, at “best” marginalise the needs of two million mostly displaced Palestinian people who hold those experiences and memory. The people of Gaza also have the capacity and ingenuity to rebuild and, indeed, wherever possible they have already begun.

This article was originally published by Palestine Deep Dive on Mon 1 Jun 2026. Read the original here.