Letters from Palestine: The struggle and support to source water in Gaza
The genocide in Gaza is estimated to have killed over 47,000 Palestinians over the course of Israel’s fifteen-month-long war on Palestine, until the ceasefire agreement that came into effect in late January 2025. The agreement has finally seen borders opening to allow the entry of hundreds of trucks carrying aid, as well as the return of tens of thousands of displaced people into north Gaza. For the past fifteen months, Palestinians have struggled, endured, and survived. In this Letters from Palestine series, as part of our Watch The Resistance project, The Polis Project is publishing essays on what resistance has meant for Palestinians over the past year: its nature and forms, the challenges it presented, and how they overcame them. In doing so, the series highlights the lives of resilience and life as resistance in Palestine.
People forced to live in tents endure immense suffering. Stripped of our humanity and deprived of our basic necessities, we endure the suffering and somehow persevere with life as we know it. Despite the death and destruction surrounding us, we constantly strive for a dignified life, as we have no choice but to try and survive. Every time we were forced to flee from one place to another to escape death, we always tried to secure the essentials of life that would help us endure, and the most important among them was water. Anyone can survive anywhere as long as water is available, but life is impossible without it. Every day that Israeli forces bombed Gaza, the suffering of the people increased, especially in their struggle to obtain water. The bombing deliberately targeted infrastructure and water wells to intensify the hardships of the population. In the camp where I sleep,…
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