A crowd gathers for the aid trucks in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on October 12, 2025. Photo-Illustration: New York Magazine; Photo: Mahmoud Sabbah/Anadolu/Getty Images This article was featured in New York ’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here . In the days before we reached the Netzarim checkpoint in Gaza in early April 2024, my wife and I rehearsed a stripped-down version of ourselves. We had already lived through six months of war, but this would be the first time we stood before Israeli