When an Israeli air strike hit her neighbourhood and destroyed her home, Faten Abu Khoseh ran into the street to desperately look for her youngest child who had been walking to the market.

Abu Khoseh, a 37-year-old widow, found her daughter, 10-year-old Qamar Shureihy, in the arms of young men. Qamar, badly wounded, had been pulled from underneath the rubble of a mosque in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Qamar was rushed by a car to a nearby hospital because there were no ambulances. Her mother said she underwent hours of surgery, partially amputating her left leg and fitting protruding metal rods to the child’s broken right leg.

“All they told me was ‘pray for her, she’s in a tough situation’,” Abu Khoseh recalled the hospital staff saying.

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