Malak A Tantesh’s grim experience of living with perpetual fear and uncertainty amid Israel’s war after 2023 Hamas attack Malak A Tantesh’s grim experience of living with perpetual fear and uncertainty amid Israel’s war after 2023 Hamas attack I t is six o’clock in the morning on Saturday 7 October 2023. Half awake, I call out in a hoarse voice to my two sisters who are sleeping on their beds next to me: “Enas, Remas, wake up – you have school.” We were not to know it yet, but this was the day