‘We can’t tell her the truth’: Gaza’s hospitals filling with lone orphans
When nine-year-old Razan Shabet was brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital one month ago, she was unconscious with a severe head injury, a brain haemorrhage and broken legs and arms.
For the first four days, she was listed as “101 Unknown”. Nobody knew who she was.
Today, the doctors and nurses at the hospital, where she remains housed in a tent in the compound, having been discharged from emergency medical treatment, still do not have the heart to tell her that both her parents are dead.
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