'Still alive' - graduate Asmaa's texts to BBC from Gaza ruins

A young woman's sporadic messages to the BBC's Paul Adams give unique insight into life in Gaza.

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My phone lights up. It is Asmaa. “Still alive,” she writes.

It is 19 March 2024 and after several weeks of silence, Asmaa Tayeh has reappeared on WhatsApp.

“Sorry. Bad internet connection and dangerous days.” And then silence. For another two months.

It has been like this since 7 October. Long disappearances, punctuated by flurries of text messages, as the 28-year-old emerges, briefly, amid the nightmare of Gaza’s longest war.

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