GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – “I don’t know why I’m here. I don’t know who I am or how I got into the world.” With these words, Louay, 24, started his interview with Al-Monitor, expressing his anger at his unknown parents who left him outside a mosque one night, never to return.
Louay, not his real name, is a young man who grew up in an orphanage in Gaza City, and was considered an orphan until a family adopted him at age 6. Louay has encountered negative perceptions from society, an issue he has failed to grasp.