The Guardian’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Jacqui Housden and Miles Herbert

Hello and welcome to the weekend.

This week, we could not look away from the series Gaza: a week in the life. In the story linked below, a Palestinian mother recounts how she is rebuilding her future in the ruins and fragments of the past she lost. Across the rest of the reads in this newsletter, there is hope, resistance and rebirth in the history that continues to define our present.

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