The genocide in Gaza is estimated to have killed over 47,000 Palestinians over the course of Israel’s fifteen-month-long war on Palestine, until the ceasefire agreement that came into effect in late January 2025. The agreement has finally seen borders opening to allow the entry of hundreds of trucks carrying aid, as well as the return of tens of thousands of displaced people into north Gaza. For the past fifteen months, Palestinians have struggled, endured, and survived.

In this Letters from Palestine series, as part of our Watch The Resistance project, The Polis Project is publishing essays on what resistance has meant for Palestinians over the past year: its nature and forms, the challenges it presented, and how they overcame them. In doing so, the series highlights the lives of resilience and life as resistance in Palestine.