The message written on the wall of a badly damaged house was distressing: “Joud is under the rubble.”

So many people who passed by this building in Deir al-Balah refugee camp, central Gaza, must have thought it unlikely that the body of the 2-year-old child would be recovered.

They did not include Naser, Joud’s uncle. He was determined to find his niece.

He kept digging for days, weeks and months after the home was attacked in October…..more