“The war destroyed our dreams and hopes,” a Palestinian girl conveys the daily suffering in Gaza through social media

Tala, who lives with her family in one tent and tirelessly helps them with all daily life tasks, told a United Nations news correspondent in Gaza: “Our lives were turned upside down. We fled from our warm homes to a tent in Deir al-Balah after being displaced more than once from Jabalia, and then to Zawaida. We found ourselves in a tent that lacked the most basic necessities of life.”.

Tala, 16 years old, described living in displacement tents as… “The worst ever”In addition to diseases, unpleasant odors, sewage, insects and rats that surround them from everywhere.

Tala was a high school student when the war broke out, where she lived “Beautiful life”.

She was part of a team working on a project to manufacture robots, which lasted for five years, but… “The war destroyed everything. It destroyed our dreams and hopes.”.

“We are really tired”

Now outside the tent that has become a home for her and her family, and inside it, her life has turned into a daily journey for survival, as she spends her day fetching water from a newly dug well near the tent, and preparing daily meals using primitive means.

Tala said: “In the tent, which is one room, we cook, shower, sleep, study, and do everything. All this in just one room. This is very difficult.”.

Tala wanted to do something about that suffering, so she chose to convey that reality and those details that she experiences every day to the world.

In one of the videos in which she conveys scenes from her daily life, she shows how sewage water surrounds adjacent tents crowded with displaced people in the town of Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip.

She tells her followers that when she chose to go to the place where one can feel comfortable and safe, which is the seashore, “You find all these tents with rubbish surrounding them and flies, and you smell a deadly stench, as well as a lot of sewage.”.

Tala assured UN News that all she wanted was to bring their cause to the other side of the world.

She expressed her hope that the war would end as soon as possible, “Because we are really tired, and we don’t want to suffer anymore.”.

Tala said: “We want to live like other people, in safety and peace. Nothing more, nothing less. That’s all we want.”.