MSF Gaza: “The day my daughter was killed, my life stopped"

19 May 2025 - Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been documenting how the women in one Gazan family are navigating the challenges of displacement in a conflict zone.

Filmed in March 2025, at the start of the Israeli army's total siege of Gaza, the MSF documentary ‘Displaced Lives’ throws light on the daily activities of four generations of women who have been doing their best to survive in the epicentre of the war for the last 18 months.

From October 2023 to January 2025, more than 1.9 million Palestinians were displaced within Gaza. After the ceasefire in January 2025, over half a million people returned to their homes in the north of the enclave.

“The day my daughter was killed, my life stopped”. These are the words of Hanan, a Palestinian woman from Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, where homes have been turned into ruins by Israeli airstrikes and most people have lost everything.

Hanan, Anwar, Nour, Sahar and Deema live together in the rubble of their former house in the city. The grandmother shares a tent with three other generations of her family. Sahar, her daughter-in-law says, “The source of strength that keeps me going is my children.”