From the “Women of Gaza” series by Tanya Habjouqa, born in Jordan and based in Jerusalem: “In another photograph conveying young women’s excitement, white hijabs frame the giddiness on the faces of schoolgirls in a motorboat from which a Palestinian flag flutters. Palestinians can go six or seven nautical miles into the Mediterranean before reaching Israeli-restricted territories, and they embrace activities such as this five-minute ride on a class trip from a government school.”

We’re moving out of the hotel today -- finally, after a month there – and back into our house, where we’ll have to “camp out” until the rest of our belongings (like our bed) arrive from Riyadh, probably in three or four weeks. It will be difficult, but we need to either put away or get rid of the hundreds of boxes of things that were in storage in Virginia and Antwerp. I’m not even sure if I’ll have a proper Internet connection in the beginning, so if I disappear for a while, that’s the reason.

‘Today’s Life and War,’ posted earlier: