Displaced Palestinians carrying their belongings flee northern Gaza toward the south via Al-Rashid Street in Gaza City on Sept. 1, 2025. Photo: Abood Abu Salama/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi is a 19-year-old writer and poet from Gaza. She is currently a second-year English literature student at the Islamic University of Gaza.

In Gaza, new beginnings never come without a price. Displacement by Israeli bombing and ground invasion forces families to leave behind entire lives: a familiar corner of home, the smell of morning coffee, a notebook holding stories of interrupted lives. These losses are emotional, ripping away the daily artifacts that help remind people who they are.

They are also financial. The cost of Nozoh , or displacement, often exceeds w

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