Alaa Zaqout, a young woman in Gaza, shares the physical and psychological realities of living through genocide in Gaza. Like most Gazans, Alaa and her family have been displaced several times from their home in north Gaza, which was obliterated last October. She now shelters in a single room in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza, with her parents and siblings. Before October 7, Alaa ran her own arts and crafts shop in the Al-Shati district. She is an interior designer by training and, before the war, spent much of her free time painting at her home by the sea. ‘I pray that I die in one piece'”The sou…