Abu Sa’da described the experience as deeply humiliating. She was filled with shame and inferiority.
Furthermore, there may be more voters in the second round: Voter turnout for the first round was 67.3 percent. Palade added: “The second round will be decided by young people, but also by those who did not vote in the first round. It is an open question whom they will support.”There is no confusion, no complexity. Just children incinerated in their sleep while the world watches and does nothing.
Dr Alaa al-Najjar, a 36-year-old paediatrician and mother of 10, spent the morning of Friday, May 23, doing what she had devoted her life to: Saving children at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital. By nightfall, she was no longer a healer but a mourner, cradling the charred, dismembered remains of her own children – Yahya, Rakan, Ruslan, Jubran, Eve, Revan, Sayden, Luqman, and Sidra. Seven were confirmed dead. Two remain buried beneath the rubble, including her youngest, six-month-old Sayden, still asleep in his crib when Dr al-Najjar kissed him goodbye that morning.In just one Israeli air strike – in just one minute – her entire world was annihilated.Her husband Hamdy, 40, also a doctor, and their son Adam, 11, are in the ICU, their lives hanging by a thread inside Gaza’s disintegrating health system – not by chance but by design. The repeated, intentional targeting of hospitals and clinics has left Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure in ruins. In just one week, 12 of Gaza’s most dedicated nurses were killed, one by one.
Commenting on the family’s condition, Dr Graeme Groom, a British surgeon working in Nasser Hospital who operated on them, said the father had suffered a “penetrating injury to his head”, while “Adam’s left arm was just about hanging off; he was covered in fragment injuries and had several substantial lacerations.”Her daughter Revan’s body was burned beyond recognition – “nothing remained of her skin or flesh,” her uncle said. In tears, Dr Alaa begged rescuers to let her hold her daughter one last time.
Sadly, the white shrouds wrapped around the bodies of Gaza’s children continue to mount.
Yaqeen Hammad is now one of those shrouded and buried children.GHF centres have become sites of chaos, violence, and desperation, with scenes of disorder running through the week as huge numbers of hungry people have overwhelmed security forces at distribution points.
An Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza reported on Friday that several people were wounded by Israeli army gunfire in the centre of the enclave as they tried to reach an aid distribution point set up by GHF.UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees,
that it was prepared to deliver supplies – including food parcels, hygiene kits and medical aid – from its warehouses in Amman, just a few hours’ drive from Gaza, if allowed access.Meanwhile, talks over a ceasefire in Israel’s war with the Palestinian armed group Hamas continue, with the US having put forward a new proposal.