Burnt by Gaza Strike, Palestinian Boy Suffers Agonising Pain [View all]
NUSEIRAT, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Four-year-old Mahmoud Abdel Athim al-Saafin wakes up screaming from pain caused by burns suffered in an Israeli strike on a school where his family had been sheltering in the Gaza Strip, his father Abdel Athim al-Saafin said.
His two-year-old sister, Maysar, was killed in the July 14 strike in Nuseirat refugee camp, Saafin said. Her body was so badly burned it resembled "a lump of coal", he said.
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UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said in a July 17 statement on X that at least eight schools had been hit in the Gaza Strip in the preceding 10 days, six of them UNRWA schools.
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Israel has laid to waste much of Gaza since Hamas raided southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing about 1,200 people and taking captive 250, according to Israeli tallies. The death toll among Palestinians in Israel's retaliatory offensive has reached more than 39,000, according to Gaza health authorities.
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