马斯喀特中学依然屹立不倒，尽管它在2024年2月曾遭炮火袭击，并成为了流离失所家庭的避难所。一些教室里仍留有战争的痕迹：四轴无人机扫射留下的弹孔、炮击损毁的窗户，以及家庭在明火上做饭留下的烟熏痕迹。
Muscat Secondary School is still standing, although it was struck by artillery in February 2024 and became a shelter for displaced families. Some classrooms still bear the marks of the war: holes left by quadcopter gunfire, windows damaged by shelling and soot stains where families cooked over open fires.
墙上，孩子们画着风筝、花朵和巴勒斯坦国旗。有些人写下了自己的名字：哈亚（Haya）、马拉（Marah）、穆罕默德（Mohammed）和哈立德（Khaled）。
On the walls, children have drawn kites, flowers and a Palestinian flag. Some have written their names: Haya, Marah, Mohammed and Khaled.
流离失所的家庭仍居住在学校的部分区域，而院子边缘的一个帐篷则成了低年级学生的临时教室，因为他们原本的学校已无法容纳他们。
Displaced families still shelter in parts of the school, while a tent at the edge of the yard serves as a makeshift classroom for younger pupils whose own school can no longer accommodate them.
9月下旬的一个周四，刚过上午10点，亚斯敏·阿布·扎伊德（Yasmin Abu Zaid）抵达了这里。随后，阿雅·阿德南（Aya Adnan）也到了，她看到亚斯敏时加快了脚步，将她拥入怀中。
It's just past 10am on a Thursday in late September when Yasmin Abu Zaid arrives. Then Aya Adnan arrives, quickening her pace when she sees Yasmin and pulling her into an embrace.
“我已经三年没见你了，”她说，“你去哪儿了？你一直没露面。”几分钟后，莉娜·尤尼斯·阿卜杜勒·卡德尔（Lina Yunis Abd al-Qader）也到了，她提着一塑料袋书，是给阿雅的妹妹准备的，她正在备考加沙的高中毕业统考（Tawjihi）。
“I haven’t seen you for three years,” she says. “Where have you been? You never show up.”Lina Yunis Abd al-Qader arrives a few minutes later, carrying a plastic bag of books for Aya’s younger sister, who is preparing for the Tawjihi, Gaza’s national secondary school graduation exams.
阿雅和莉娜自离校后一直有见面。她们两家多年来一直是朋友，且至今仍住在努赛拉特（Nuseirat）的同一个社区。但曾经住在附近的亚斯敏在战争初期就流离失所了。由于战火阻隔，见面变得困难，她们已经三年没见过她了。
Aya and Lina have seen each other since leaving school. Their families have been friends for years, and they still live in the same neighbourhood of Nuseirat. But Yasmin, who once lived nearby, was displaced early in the war. With the fighting making it difficult to meet, neither has seen her for three years.
这三人还与现居埃及的盖达·扎库特（Ghaida Zaqout）保持着联系。她们有一个私人的WhatsApp群组，经常在里面聊天并互报平安。
The three have also kept in touch with Ghaida Zaqout, who now lives in Egypt. Together, they have a private WhatsApp group where they chat regularly and check on one another.
当玛哈（Maha）教完课后，她张开双臂迎接“我的女孩们”。她们兴奋地交谈起来，争先恐后地想要了解彼此的近况。过了一会儿，玛哈拿出手机，调出了那张旧照片。
When Maha finishes teaching, she greets "my girls" with arms wide open. They erupt into chatter, talking over one another and trying to catch up. In time, Maha pulls up the old photograph on her phone.
女孩们围拢过来，指着照片背景里的那棵树，认出了它。随后，她们开始回忆起共同度过的校园时光。
The girls huddle around her, then point at the tree behind them, recognising it from the photograph. Now, they begin recalling the school days they shared.
那些都是青少年友谊中再寻常不过的亲密时刻：谁会借你一支笔，谁会帮你解释你不懂的作业，谁会在课堂上悄悄说话，谁又会因为一场考试而担心好几天。“这就是我的女孩们，”她再次说道。
There were the ordinary intimacies of teenage friendship: who would lend you a pen, who would explain homework you didn't understand, who whispered through lessons and who worried for days about an exam. "These are my girls," she says again.
盖达是那个还没走进教室，笑声就已经传出来的女孩，而且她几乎从不停止说话，即使老师把她调到了另一张桌子。
Ghaida was the girl whose laughter could be heard before she entered the classroom, and who rarely stopped talking, even when teachers moved her to another desk.
萨拉和她的双胞胎妹妹法蒂玛总是自拍个不停，而莉娜·阿尔-胡尔则更安静一些，常常在课间拿出小说来看。
Sara and her twin sister Fatima were forever taking selfies, while Lina al-Hour was quieter, often bringing novels to read during breaks.
女孩们谈论衣服、电视节目和足球。她们在课间一起买吃的，还常常讨论大学以及她们将来可能成为什么样的人。
The girls talked about clothes, television programmes and football. They bought food together during breaks and wondered aloud about university and what they might become.
有人梦想学习医学，另一个人则想设计建筑。她们的未来似乎仍然取决于考试、分数、大学录取名额以及家庭的经济能力。玛哈记得萨拉·雷扬的欢笑，她说，盖达现在在埃及学习牙科。接着，她翻到了莉娜·阿尔-胡尔的照片。
Some dreamed of studying medicine; another wanted to design buildings. Their futures still seemed to turn on exams, marks, university places and what their families could afford. Maha remembers Sara Rayan laughing, and Ghaida, she says, is in Egypt now, studying dentistry. Then, she reaches Lina al-Hour.
这一次，她停下了，把莉娜的脸在屏幕上放大，然后沉默了。她的笑容已经消失。当她再次开口时，声音变得更轻，还微微哽咽。
Here, she pauses, enlarges Lina’s face on the screen and falls silent. Her smile has disappeared. When she speaks again, her voice is quieter and catches slightly.
“这是我最懂礼貌的学生，莉娜，”她轻声说，“她是一位烈士。”2023年11月17日，莉娜在一次以色列的空袭中丧生，当时她才18岁。有那么一瞬间，女孩们在沉默中更紧地抱住了彼此。那张照片一直停留在她的手机屏幕上。
“This is my well-mannered student, Lina,” she says softly. “She is a martyr.”On November 17, 2023, Lina was killed in an Israeli air strike. She was 18. For a moment, the girls wrap their arms even tighter around one another in silence. The photograph stays open on her phone.
三年后，站在同一所学校的校园里，她们互相说，真希望还能回到那些日子。但这次重聚时，照片里的大多数女孩都已不在。
Standing in the same schoolyard three years later, they tell one another they wish they could return to those days. But most of the girls in the photograph are missing at this reunion.
阿雅拿出手机，把它举到手臂远处，试图重现三年前萨拉拍下的那张自拍。“萨拉本来应该在这里拍这张照片的，”她说。
Aya takes out her phone and holds it at arm's length, trying to recreate the selfie Sara took three years earlier. “Sara should have been here to take it,” she says.
但萨拉无法前来。她现在在一家非政府组织工作，用工资来支付大学学费，并为家庭收入出一份力。
But Sara cannot come. She now works for an NGO, using her wages to help pay her university fees and contribute to her family's income.