"My Daughters are Frightened"

Nour Harazeen, a journalist, left Gaza along with her family a few weeks ago. Her five-year-old twin daughters are bewildered by the devastation they see all around

- Seema Guha

NOUR Harazeen, a journalist from Gaza City, who has been constantly on the move from one place to another to escape the Israeli bombings, lost her friend recently. “She sustained a head injury, but the hospital, despite all the efforts of the doctors, could not save her. There was nothing for them to work with—no oxygen, no medicines, not even syringes to give her an injection to relieve her pain. She died in great pain,” says Harazeen. This is not just the fate of her friend but thousands of others having the misfortune of living in the world’s largest open-air prison. No one can erase the picture of a Palestinian doctor being consoled by his colleagues after he was forced to amputate the legs of his young son without anesthesia.