The School of Gaza

A Few Things I Learned About Trauma While Living There

Disclaimer: this is a personal account of my experience in Gaza in 2003. It is not a political statement about the conflict’s history, past or present. If there is anything I learned from my short stay there, it is that I never had and never will have a chance to ever grasp the complexity of what is happening there. Names are changed for people’s protection.

I appreciate your typical story has a clear structure, a thread, a story line. This is not your typical story, however, and…