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Gaza diary is a series of contributions in the British newspaper The Guardian, written by a resident of the city of Gaza, published in episodes starting October 13, 2023.
Content[edit]
The series started to be published with its first episode October 13, 2023. The author describes his and his sister's plight after evacuating their apartment in what he describes as another "escalation", which as such seems to be nothing new to him and the Gaza population, having been exposed to bombardments and evacuation orders from the Israeli side before. What makes the diary reports so compelling to the Guardian's readers around the world is how similar the protagonists' lives have been before to everybody's experience: living in an apartment, doing sports and caring about one's health and fitness, using means of communication like smartphones and computers on a daily basis, keeping in touch with friends and loved ones in the neighbourhood as well as abroad via social networks. The first evacuation order the author and his sister receive e.g. is communicated to the residents via a WhatsApp-group of the block.
Displaced[edit]
Among the many difficulties described - where to get water, or gas for cookin; lack of elecricity for light or mobile phones; hardly being able to wash; where to evacuate to the next time this should become necessary; an (as turns out later) obviously false alarm about a supposed evacuation order that makes eveyone grab children and bags and run out onto the street. The emotional and physical side are being described in a very clear and touching language: fuzzy thinking because of sleep deprivation, friends abroad who don't understand that what keeps you from sleeping during bombardments is not the noise ("use earplugs"), but the fear to die any minute, emotional issues with having to live with other families in their already cramped homes. The two are carrying with them their two cats and their goldfish, who eventually dies. As headline for the first edition the paper chose a sentence from the diary's text: Gaza diary: ‘We survived another night. Every inch of my body aches – lack of sleep is torture’
The author[edit]
The author writes under a pseudonym, 'Ziad'. The paper does not explicitly state whether the texts are being related by the author in English language or are being translated. The author's gender is not explicitly stated throughout the first five texts, the paper's introduction to the first contribution though mentions the author and his sister:
Ziad, a 35-year-old Palestinian, recounts the past few days in Gaza: moving with his sister from neighbour to neighbour; trying to stay alive – and saving his family’s goldfish [1]
Episodes[edit]
As of October 19, 2023, five parts have been published.
- Gaza diary: ‘We survived another night. Every inch of my body aches – lack of sleep is torture’ [1]
- Gaza diary part two: ‘We decide to stay. Then I start crying’ [2]
- Gaza diary part three: ‘Now I am writing condolence messages just using autocomplete’ [3]
- Gaza diary part four: ‘This time it was a rumour, what about next time?' [4]
- Gaza diary part five: ‘I’m thinking about what my gravestone would say if I died’ [5]
- ^ a b Ziad (13 October 2023). "Gaza diary: 'We survived another night. Every inch of my body aches – lack of sleep is torture'". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 October 2023. Cite error: The named reference "stand" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Ziad (16 October 2023). "'Gaza diary part two: 'We decide to stay. Then I start crying'". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ Ziad (17 October 2023). "Gaza diary part three: 'Now I am writing condolence messages just using autocomplete'". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ Ziad (18 October 2023). "Gaza diary part four: 'This time it was a rumour, what about next time?'". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ Ziad (19 October 2023). "Gaza diary part five: 'I'm thinking about what my gravestone would say if I died'". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 October 2023.