Aseel and the Five Children

Aseel and the Five Children أصيل والأطفال الخمسة

By Aseel Salama أصيل سلامة

In this diary written from October 2023 to February 2024, 24-year-old Palestinian girl Aseel Salama documents people’s lives under bombardment in the city of Rafah. From her family home, which has become a shelter for a large number of displaced people, Aseel chronicles her daily life with her five nieces and nephews with sincere emotion and with an overwhelming desire to stop the war. To Aseel, writing is a psychological recovery from what she and other Palestinians are experiencing.

English edition.