Nazareth, who was taken out of Gaza at the beginning of November with her parents, watched on the news the destruction of the city in which she was born and grew up, how her parents’ house was destroyed and some members of her family who remained there were injured.
With this introduction, Le Monde newspaper began a report written by Beatrice Gorey in which she spoke with the young woman Nassera, who obtained her doctorate in France and obtained a permanent work contract, which allowed her to successfully apply for French citizenship, so that her family could join her.
Given the violence of the war launched by Israel on Gaza, Nasra believes that every detail becomes important after they were forcibly displaced under the bombs. She says, “Every night I have nightmares and I remember them. Every morning I ask myself: Is this my life or my life after death?”
Memories and nostalgia
“Even before the war it was difficult to imagine the future in Gaza, but now?” Nasra, with her excellent French and perfect English, is pursuing specialized studies in a large French city, but the “France Horizons” association, which houses her parents, found for them only a two-room apartment in a suburb of Paris, and therefore she says that “it is difficult to work in such a place.” The little apartment.
The young woman estimates that cleaning and rebuilding Gaza will take several years, and without thinking even for a moment about returning to live there, she sees that the Gaza of the past, which she recalls with a smile, will never return. The days of enjoying going to have a drink by the sea on the balconies of large hotels that were bombed are over.
Nazareth was born near the sea, but she does not know how to swim. She says, “After the age of twenty, you cannot go there because people look at you a lot,” adding, “But as you know, we have a lot of private swimming pools. You can rent them to meet with family or friends and swim.” “When the thermometer goes crazy.”
The university was destroyed
Throughout her studies in public primary school, girls and boys were mixed, but secondary education was single-sex, with the exception of a few private schools. There are 5 universities in Gaza, most of them government, the most famous of which are Al-Aqsa and Al-Azhar, in which “I always wanted to pursue higher education, as I wanted to.” Going to Europe after vacation.” The Al-Azhar campus, now a pile of rubble, was bombed on October 26 and destroyed on November 4.
Nasra feels a kind of dizziness as she watches the news on her cell phone. Each news is more disastrous than the other. She says, “My father watches the news all day,” when he does not go shopping, and her mother, who wears the hijab, rarely goes out. As for Nasra, she thinks about her plans after the war, and her light shines. “I’m going to learn to swim,” she said.