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Sabrin's story
Name: Sabrin
Age: 19
From: Zaitoun
Date of injury: 29 July
Sabrin was with her family in an UNRWA school converted into a shelter after they were displaced from their home. She and her sister, Fatima, along with some neighbours had returned to her house to cook food and collect some of the family’s items. The house was hit, killing Fatima and injuring Sabrin severely. Neighbours saw smoke coming from the house and rushed to the scene. Both girls were evacuated to hospital in a private car.
Sabrin had amputation of both her legs and sustained upper arm and forearm fractures. At the time of interview, she was scheduled for referral to Makassed hospital in East Jerusalem.
Ahmed's story
Name: Ahmed
Age: 9
From: Shate camp
Date of injury: 28 July
On the first day of Eid al-Fitr, Ahmed was playing in the street with his friends, taking turns on a swing. There was an attack resulting in 13 fatalities and 45 casualties. Family members ran into the street and found children covered with blood, some killed and some injured. Ahmad's father carried him to hospital. Ahmed sustained wounds to the head, his face, and both upper and both lower limbs. The surgical operation to remove fragments from his body took three hours and 38 sutures. At the time of interview, Ahmed was suffering from panic and shock from losing his friends.
Ahmed lost his good friend Mohamed. He said: "Mohamed was covered with blood".
Raed's story
Name: Raed
Age: 37
From: Deir al-Balah (displaced from Bureij)
Date of injury: 23 July
Raed's family left their home in Bureij camp on 21 July for his sister's house in Deir al-Balah because of heavy shelling. Living conditions were very crowded with four families, 30 persons, staying in the same small house and the area was not safe so Raed’s family decided to return to Bureij after two days. Eighteen people were in the street when they were hit. A 10-year-old girl was killed. More explosions immediately followed injuring Raed and two of his nephews. One of Raed’s nephews, Mohamed, 12, suffered cut arteries in both his legs. Ahmad, 11, sustained a fractured tibia and multiple shrapnel wounds. Raed sustained comminuted fractures in his left arm with radial nerve damage and an open wound in his back.
Mohamed, Ahmed and Raed were all taken to hospital for treatment. One child from the family was killed and 15 people were injured.
Raed: “We were in Deir al-Balah and going to move to Al Bureij. We stopped a car to take us, the wife of my brother and my female cousins with their daughters. They stopped the car in front of the house. We were standing by our house …. I was just saying to them how lucky we were to find a car.
Suddenly the first rocket was fired on us. The child Rawan was injured, her head went off her body.... A second rocket injured me, my sister, the son of my brother, two sons of my sister and my brother’s wife. I tried to walk with difficulty along the wall to go into the house. I went to check on my wife and children. I was afraid that the whole house would be demolished.
Then many people came and I was taken with my injured sister and her boy to Al Aqsa Hospital in a car.
On our way to the hospital I saw an ambulance coming to take the others. At Al Aqsa hospital I received first aid and then I was transferred with my nephew Mohamed to Al Shifa Hospital.”
