Mediapart in May began publishing a series of reports regularly sent to it from inside the Gaza Strip by two young Palestinians who chronicled the everyday events of life and death, displacement and hunger, in the Strip. One of them, Nour Elassy, a 22-year-old journalist, poet and writer left Gaza and her family in July for France, after she was offered a place at the country's prestigious social sciences school, the EHESS. In this latest contribution to Mediapart, written in France, she denounces the grim reality of conditions in Gaza after last month's tenuous ceasefire was introduced, and how the twisted use of language has become a weapon of the conflict.
NourNour Elassy, whose higher education studies were in English and French literature, was born and raised in the Gaza Strip, in the north-east neighbourhood of Tuffah. After Israel’s invasion of Gaza, following the Hamas attacks of October 7th 2023 that left more than 1,200 Israelis dead, since when close to 70,000 Gazans have been killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, she and her family were displaced and lived for almost 15 months in Deir al-Balah, a town in the centre of Gaza.
