Tuesday marks two years since the October 7 attacks and eruption of war in the Middle East yet the pain is still raw for Israeli and Palestinian Australians as hostages remain captive and the relentless bombardment of Gaza continues.

Watching the destruction play out on social media, Sydney lawyer Ramia Abdo Sultan feels as though she is "living between two worlds".

"I wake up knowing my family here has the comfort of peace and access to food and necessities," she says.

"But my own people are being literally slaughtered and starved and erased, not only in Gaza but even in the West Bank."

Ms Sultan reflects on memories of playing freely with other children in Gaza's streets while visiting as a girl.

The same thoroughfares are now rubble and hundreds of thousands of people who once walk

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