What does it mean to be a mother in Gaza during genocide?
For Ola Odeh, 36, from the city of Khan Younis, it has meant losing her son and husband last October.
“My son Abdel Rahman was always asking me when we would go to my grandfather’s house. Will there be a truce soon or not? I made him be patient and pray a lot for this war to stop, but I was afraid that the army would target entire residential areas,” Odeh said.
Her 9-year-old son Abdul Rahman went downstairs with his father to sit with his grandfather and his cousins one day last October, she recalled.
“My daughter Masa was playing in her room, and I was arranging clothes in my room,” Odeh said. “Suddenly there was a huge explosion. I felt like I was on the street. I hugged Masa and looked around.”
“There were no stairs for me to go down, so I descended on piles of stones. They took me to the hospital, and I was crying hard. I wanted to see my son.”
She would never do so. He died along with his father in the blast. …more