‘Anyone Who Goes Near the Water Risks His Life. But If We Leave the Sea, We Die’

For 17 months, Ahmed Al-Hissi, a 54-year-old fisherman from Gaza’s Al-Shati refugee camp, hasn’t touched his fishing rod. It remains in the storage room by the port where he stashed it shortly after Israel launched its onslaught on the Strip, and he hasn’t dared retrieve it — even after the ceasefire took hold.  “We have [...]