"Whatever Hell Is, This Is Worse": Digital Exchanges with My Family in Gaza during the Genocide.

This is a testimony of transcribed WhatsApp messages and phone calls exchanged between the author in the West Bank and her relatives in Gaza from December 2023 to February 2024. Through this digital medium, the author feels connected to her family and their harrowing survival of genocide and displacement. The testimony recounts the hardships her relatives endure repeatedly evacuating areas in Gaza coming under Israeli attacks, as well as their daily desperate searches for food, wood for fire, and medicine. But it is also a testament to the human capacity to adapt and to hope, even in the face of overwhelming death and suffering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]