Source: In These Times
by Yousef Aljamal
“On August 6, at around 3:00 a.m., an Israeli airstrike hit the apartment where my sister Somaiya, 35, her husband Anas, 35, and their daughters Noor, 14, Hoor, 13, and Sham, 9, were staying. The airstrike killed my sister’s family except for Noor, who survived with an arm fracture that required surgery. When Noor was admitted to the hospital on August 8 and rushed to the operating room, she called out to her parents, who were gone forever. Although Noor knew they had been killed in the airstrike, she could not help but call out to them, like a child needing her parents by her side during surgery. Noor is now the only survivor of her family, recalling memories with her parents and siblings, all of whom were killed by Israel. I had read about the term ‘wounded child, no surviving family’ (WCNSF), which was introduced in Gaza, but I never thought that my own family would experience it.” (08/13/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/on-grief-and-surviving-alone-in-gaza