Sondos' choice: stay and risk Israel's bombings or flee and lose her home

The question on the mind of Sondos Jabr is whether she and her family can afford to be displaced once again.

- Ruth Michaelson & Aseel Mousa

Yet staying in Gaza City might cost them their lives.

Jabr has started to lose count of the number of times her family has been forced to pack their bags and run, but specific episodes of cruelty and exhaustion are seared into her memory. Now she fears they might have to flee Gaza City once more – although there is nowhere else to go.

"Now all I feel is terror," she said. "The bombings have intensified recently, and the aim is to force us southwards. We are trapped in an impossible choice: the immense pressure and costs of displacement or staying here under terrifying unlivable conditions."

Jabr fears that leaving is no guarantee of survival – bombs target "every inch of Gaza".