‘Death follows us in every form’: in Gaza, even the sand now kills

DEIR AL-BALAH: Aisha Al-Zain heard the cries of alarm between sunset and evening prayers on Sunday. People were shouting that a tent had fallen on Tahrir and her children. Then came all the names, one by one: Habiba. Mariam. Tahrir. Ibrahim. Reem. Al-Zain ran out barefoot, her head uncovered. Where the tents of her niece, Tahrir, and her daughter-in-law, Reem…