Before October 7, Marah al-Satari was a typical twenty-two-year-old. She was eager to complete her last semester at the now bombed-out al-Azhar University in the north of the besieged Gaza Strip, where she was studying mass communications. After graduation, she planned to become a journalist.

Now, however, she is living in limbo in the Egyptian capital of Cairo and taking care of eight of her orphaned siblings and cousins, ages five to fourteen, after her parents, uncles, and aunts were killed in Israel’s eight-month-long bombardment of Gaza. Israel has massacred nearly forty thousand Palestinians and has completely devastated the small enclave, one of the most densely populated areas on earth.