More than 7,000 Palestinian children have been killed by Israel’s war on Gaza. Here are some of their stories
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “She was so attached to me, she used to call me ‘Mahmoud Pool’ because we always went swimming together.” Ghina was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the building where she was sheltering with her family in Rafah, southern Gaza, on 23 October, and first reported by Martyrs of Gaza. “But after all that, he couldn’t save his family.” The future scholar: Mahmoud Othman, 14 Mahmoud, Omar and Ghina’s cousin, had the mind of an engineer. “There was not a hesitation when the mom said, ‘Half of our kids don’t survive, so we have to keep having kids,’” Rammouni says. “The way she said that was just like, they know that there’s gonna be another war, and there’s a possibility that these kids will not make it.” Those words would prove to be prophetic.