The four-member Abu Daher family lived their happiest day yet since Israeli army bulldozers crushed their cement home almost two years ago during Israel's massive assault on the Gaza Strip.
"This is a remarkable day for me, my elderly mother, my handicapped brother and my sister," Suhaila Abu Daher said, sitting for the first time ever in a newly-built 60 square meter home near the Izbet Abed Rabbo neighborhood of Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. The new house is just a short distance from the tent the family had lived in since the Israeli attack made them and thousands of other Gaza families homeless.
"First, thank God, and then all those who helped us have a home to protect me and my family from the heat, the cold and so many other awful things like snakes and stray dogs and cats," Abu Daher said, flanked by her 100-year-old mother, known as Umm Ahmed, seated in a wheelchair, and her brother Muhammad who has lived with severe disabilities since birth.
Rami Almeghari is a journalist and university lecturer based in the Gaza Strip.
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