Nooh Al-shaghnobi sits on the rubble of his home in Gaza. Photo: Nooh Al-shaghnobi

For Gaza’s 2 million survivors, the word “ceasefire” no longer sounds like peace; it sounds like a trick of language, another fragile pause between massacres. After two years of genocide that erased entire families, neighborhoods, and futures, many in Gaza met this fragile truce not with celebration but disbelief, exhaustion, and fear. One Palestinian described the current moment as a “pause between two pains”: the horror they lived through and the uncertainty that has followed.

I spoke with six people from Gaza — a filmmaker, a photojournalist, an architect, a former spokesperson for the Gaza Municipality, a civil worker, and a survivor — who offer a piercing look into what it means to first live thr

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