Thank you Noora for continuing to be a voice of conscience. There is no reason to assume that churches in Gaza are more sacrosanct to the genocidal Israelis than mosques, hospitals, schools, libraries, and UN shelters.

I have one relative left in Gaza. My dad's niece, now nearing 70 and alone with her husband. Last we heard, around Christmas, they had left Gaza and were in Rafah, waiting for Godot. By then, they had already received news that their family home in al-Rimal had been flattened.

The luckier relatives had left Gaza a few years ago, congregating in Amman or Ramallah. The last one out made it in 2016, when I met him in Ramallah with his wife and 4-year-old boy. The child was not socially comfortable, even fearful of people. I realized that in his short life he had seen at least two bombings of Gaza. His dad's Facebook account had been my main feed for real-time videos of explosions, taken from their apartment balcony.

My point is the Palestinian Christian community in Gaza will never be extinct. As long as one of us survives, we will return to Palestine and rebuild all our destroyed homes, from Iqrit to Rafah. I am confident also, that if somehow Israel manages to murder every last Palestinian Christian around the world and their descendants, some of my Muslim brothers and sisters will convert to Christianity just to maintain the tradition in Palestine.