Last week, I was walking by the Beit Lahiya cemetery when I saw a woman crying at a grave.
I walked over to her and she introduced herself as Nujoud al-Shish. She told me the grave was that of her two daughters, Jana, 10, and Rana, 6.
The girls were killed on 17 November 2023, when Israeli tanks shelled the Tal al-Rabia’ school in Beit Lahiya where the family had been displaced.
The Tal al-Rabia’ school is one of the schools that make up the Tel al-Zaatar complex in Beit Lahiya, and more than 50 Palestinians were killed during that attack.
Nujoud said that on that night, they were sleeping in a classroom on the third floor of the school. Around 10 pm, the occupation tanks began to shell the school. There were also planes above dropping bombs.
A shell was fired into the classroom and wounded Nujoud and her two daughters. ….more
