Displaced three times by the war in Gaza, Mariam Moeen Awwad recently returned to her family’s home in Jabaliya, where amid the damage and destruction she hoped to cling to a routine for the next two weeks.
Without a television, Ms. Awwad, 23, said she would rely on the small screen of her father’s phone to transmit accounts of the Palestinians competing in the Paris Olympics. She said she wanted to feel connected to them, and to the Games, as much as possible.
But even as she expressed hope that the Palestinian team would do well, she acknowledged it would be hard.