I am an academic, a mother, no threat to anyone. Yet those I love have been injured and killed, and I have endured indescribable hardships<\/p>\n
I am a Palestinian mother with a bachelor\u2019s degree in physics and a master\u2019s degree, and I am currently a doctoral student. I work as a lecturer at Gaza\u2019s University College of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n
I married my first husband when I was 22 years old. We had two children: our son, Shihab, who is now 19, and our daughter, Maryam, who is 17. Tragically, in 2007, my husband was killed in a painful accident that I witnessed. I suffered a psychological breakdown and, after several years, married again, to my first husband\u2019s brother. I became his second wife; he already had a wife and three children: Asmaa, 16, Ali, 13, and Muhammad, 12. Together, we had four children: Zeina, now 12, Yassin, 11, Naseeba, eight, and Zain al-Din, two.<\/p>\n
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