Maysoon Tumeih, 38 years, was sitting one night in September chatting with her oldest sister, Weam.

Their tents were about 100 meters apart in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, where they had both sought shelter with their families after being forcibly displaced.

They were remembering their lives before October 2023.

Weam told her sister how much she missed her house and her neighborhood in the Beach Refugee Camp and the lovely people there she left behind eight months ago.

She will never see her home or those neighbors again.

On 10 September Israel launched an air raid on the area, dropping what the rights group Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported as “three American-made MK-84 bombs on a group of displaced people sleeping in their tents in the Mawasi area.” …..more