Against all odds, Diana Shams was planning to celebrate her daughter Rose’s third birthday at home.
After they had been displaced seven times in two years by the war in Gaza, the prospect of an impending ceasefire in early October offered a glimmer of hope that she and her family could return to their Gaza City apartment, which by some twist of providence had come through the conflict relatively unscathed. More than 80 percent of buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, the United Nations estimates.
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