Gazans bid farewell to ‘nightmare’ of 2025

Palestinians in Gaza are marking the new year not with celebration, but with exhaustion, grief and a fragile hope that their “endless nightmare” might finally end.

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For residents of the battered territory, daily life is a struggle for survival.

“We in the Gaza Strip are living in an endless nightmare," said Hanaa Abu Amra, a displaced woman in her thirties living in Gaza City.

“We hope that this nightmare will end in 2026 ...The least we can ask for is a normal life-- to see electricity restored, the streets return to normal and to walk without tents lining the roads,” she said.

Across Gaza, a territory of more than two million people, scenes of hardship are commonplace.