On the third night of our most recent displacement, caused by the war that began in October 2023, I sat next to my 20-year-old cousin, who was curled up in a thin tent pitched on a cracked patch of land in Gaza. He was silent, trembling, almost unable to breathe. The pain, sharp and familiar, pierced his abdomen. It was another attack of a genetic disease that has been haunting his body all these years: familial Mediterranean fever (FMF). This time, however, the attack came without colchicine, the only drug that controls the inflammation. He long ago ran out.

As the war drags on, famine tightens its grip on Gaza. Even a piece of bread can be unavailable for days. The price of a single kilo of flour fluctuates wildly — reaching $25-$30 on some days, and as high as $70-$90 on others — makin

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