Yasmine al-Akkad had given birth a few weeks earlier.
When she heard a loud explosion last Saturday (13 July), Yasmine immediately grabbed her baby. Then she lifted her other daughter – a 2-year-old – and began running through al-Mawasi in southern Gaza.
Yasmine survived the massacre in which more than 90 Palestinians were killed. But she is deeply traumatized by what she witnessed.
“The worst thing I saw was the body of my brother-in-law on a tree,” she said. “It was cut in two.”
A child named Abd al-Rahman was hungry.
His mother was unable to cook anything for him. So she had told him to head for a communal kitchen in al-Mawasi, where food was being distributed.
Abd al-Rahman is still alive after the massacre – though he required an amputation. ….more
