A Voice from Gaza | Simon Obeid
My name is Simon Obeid.
I am a mother of four children, living in Gaza, where days are no longer measured by time, but by patience.
During the most recent war on Gaza, my husband was martyred,
and from that day on, everything changed.
I am no longer just a wife—I became both mother and father,
the only support for my four children:
Sara, Rima, Ahmad, and Malak.
I carry the pain of loss in my heart,
and on top of it, an illness that has exhausted my body—
an illness that requires treatment outside Gaza,
a journey for which I have neither the means nor the way.
Every morning, I look into my children’s eyes,
hiding my pain so they will not see my weakness,
gathering whatever strength remains
to be their source of safety in a world that has left us with nothing.
My children do not ask for much.
They ask only one question:
“Mama… will you stay with us?”
I am not asking for the impossible.
I am only asking for a chance at treatment,
a chance at life,
a chance to remain a mother to my four children.
This is not just one story—
it is one voice among the many voices of Gaza,
the voices of mothers who carry loss, illness,
and responsibility all at once.
We do not ask for pity.
We ask for our voices to be heard,
and for our suffering not to be forgotten
behind numbers and headlines.
From Gaza… this is the voice of a mother who is still resisting.
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