Salem Baraka has seen the kind of horror no parent should ever have to endure: The Israeli military killed his son Karim right in front of him.
Like so many others, Salem and Karim fled from their home in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza, during the current genocidal war. They took shelter at al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital.
They were inside the hospital when it was stormed by Israeli forces on 18 March.
Salem recalled how he spent the following week “waiting to die.”
“Quadcopter drones were firing wildly – striking anything that moved,” he said. “The Israelis smashed the glass in the windows and destroyed the walls in the department where we were hiding.”
“A shell fell on us and killed my son in front of my eyes,” he added. “I could not save him. He bled to death.”
The situation, in Salem’s words, was “worse than hell.”….more
