Here, our Gaza correspondent Omar al-Najjar outlines how Gazans are coping and adapting to this new reality…

Don’t forget, the vast majority of people in Gaza lost their jobs with the war, so who knows how they are dealing with the cost of essential needs?

Over the last 18 years, Gaza have been under siege, goods that comes in are the only ones accepted by the non-Palestinian decision makers. This made it difficult for people to open a business or be creative, true, but not for Palestinians and especially the people of Gaza.

Gazans took this challenge as an opportunity to create and innovate…

Children have their self-made toys, adults bring their ideas to reality, and wise old people are consultants for the communities. It sounds like a documentary movie of humans in the early centuries, but it is the truth.

Gazans entered most scientific, political, and literary fields, and their inventions benefited humanity. Like the most delicate heart surgeries, creating artificial limbs, the youngest doctor, a minster or a parliament member of other countries, or creating new farming styles. Despite everything.

In my residential area, many houses and properties have been bulldozed, and there are now large areas of empty land. Many families are using the land next to them to grow some vegetables to help them survive in light of the high prices, scarcity of food in the markets, and the halt in the flow of aid.

Vegetable seeds and waste are used for germinating many plants. Because of my father’s experience my family are able to grow basil, pepper, molokhia, tomato, mint, dill, eggplant, radish, sage, arugula, pomegranate, thyme, mango, grapes, figs, orange, guava, and luffa.

The Palestinians take a historical pride in the fact that if what is happening to them had happened to another people, they would have been scattered, or they couldn’t survive. It is important to recognize the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the support organizations. They are working to improve food security, sustainable agriculture, and health system.

We should all stand together for an immediate ceasefire, for children, for humanity and for the earth.

Israelis are used to the sounds of wailing air-raid sirens warning us of incoming projectiles. These could be rockets, ballistic missiles or drones. The ominous droning alerting us to get to safety is a daily occurrence, in some parts of the country a lot more than others.

Sitting in the shelters, crouching in open spaces, hoping desperately for no shrapnel from an interception – or worse a direct impact, we ask ourselves, “where is this from? Is it Hamas? Hezbollah? The Houthis? Who is it this time?” On a daily basis, Israel’s first responders report civilians injured – or killed because of rocket impact or shrapnel. This goes unreported by the global media and there are no condemnations from world leaders, the United Nations or “human rights” organisations.

Since 7 October, Israel has been fighting a war on multiple fronts, following the attack by Hamas. Following Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel where the terror organization murdered over 1200 and took over 250 hostages, Israel launched Operation Swords of Iron with the aim of dismantling Hamas and returning the hostages. As of writing this, 101 hostages remain captive in the tunnels of Gaza. On 8 October, Iranian-proxy Hezbollah started firing thousands of rockets, anti-tank missiles and drones into northern Israel, burning acres of valuable farmland and nature reserves.

To date, over 60 000 Israelis remain evacuated from their homes in the north, many of which destroyed by Hezbollah rockets. In recent months, Israel’s war cabinet made the safe return of northern citizens to their homes another priority and the IDF have pushed into southern Lebanon in order to push Hezbollah north of the Litani River. In 2006, following the second Lebanon war, the UN Security Council agreed on Resolution 1701 which states that not only must Hezbollah be demilitarized, they must remain north of the Litani – a mandate that UNIFIL troops and the international community have failed to enforce.

It is not just the Iranian terror proxies that are attacking Israel. On a near daily basis, terror attacks from the West Bank are attempted. Stabbings, car ramming and shootings are both attempted and carried out by members of terror squads. On 1 October, minutes before Iran rained 200 ballistic missiles on Israeli cities, seven were murdered as they headed to safety on the light rail in Tel Aviv. One victim, a young mother, managed to shield her baby who a passerby took to the nearest hospital.

The Iranian attack of 1 October was the second from their soil into our cities. As Israelis huddled for shelter, the sirens wailed constantly, the booms rocked the sky and the buildings. The first Iranian attack on 13 April used drones as well as ballistic missiles but this one was far bigger – and terrifying.

The damage was marginal, this is a regime that not only terrorizes its own citizens and sponsors terror factions holding both Palestinians and Israelis in their grip – but has repeatedly threatened the annihilation of Israel.

Houthi rebels from Yemen have also entered the fray, firing long range ballistic missiles towards Israeli cities and disrupting shipping lanes in the Red Sea which not only affects the Jewish state, but the global community as well. USA and British forces have been striking Houthi targets in response.

Opportunistic terror groups in Iraq and Syria also launch missiles at Israeli targets.

Israel is fighting a kinetic war on seven fronts but is also fighting on two other fronts. Rampant antisemitism around the world has many Jews around the world feeling that history is repeating itself. We know how this ends if it is not stopped. The war on the Jewish state is also fought in the courtrooms with accusations like “genocide” – despite the evidence and testimony that prove otherwise.

War is horrific – there are countless examples around the world but genocide is an intent and many forget that.