‘In Gaza, mothers pray their children will survive for the next day’

Raising children in remains a constant battle. Diana Shams is a young mother living with her two children in the Strip.

Author of the book, A Different Kind of Motherhood, Shams reflects on what it means to raise them in the realities of war.

“In Gaza, even is a target. To carry life is to carry risk. To raise is to raise them under fire, explosions, buzzing drones and continuous displacement."

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