Al-Fukhari, Gaza When Ahlam Saqr, fifty, saw that her sons were taking branches off her olive trees to burn for fires to cook, stay warm, and boil water for baths, she broke down in tears. According to her, it was a matter of surviving so that the family could endure the constant Israeli bombardment of Gaza. However, that did not make it any less difficult to witness the destruction of her four cherished trees.