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The Palestinian New Year: a view from Gaza
Gaza resident RANA SHUBAIR asks what 2021 will bring for her people
'Like any mother, I try to instill hope in my children despite the grim circumstances that persist. I teach them that the injustice we live under will end one day and we have to keep shouting and never stop demanding our rights.'

WITH 2020 coming to a close, the Palestinian people are holding their breath. Will 2021 be a more welcoming one — one that will heal their long-sustained wounds and calamities?

The United Nations stated in a report that by 2020, Gaza would be “uninhabitable.” Has this gloomy prophecy come true for us?  

When I first read that part of the report, I imagined Gaza becoming a ghost town with cracked signs reading “a people once lived here.” 

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