“I tried to get back a small part of what I lost” - Yasir al Haj lost his mother, father, three brothers, and three sisters when Israel bombed his house.
In July and August 2014, Israel launched a devastating war on Gaza, which left at least 2,251 Palestinians dead.
TRT World spoke to one survivor of the onslaught, Yasir Mahmoud Lotfi Alhaj, about the day he lost everything and everyone he loved, and how he rebuilt his life. “There was my dad, my mother, three brothers, three sisters...all of them were martyred, everyone who was in the house was martyred,” he told TRT World, adding that his family received no prior warning of the attack.
He tried to wrap his mind around why the house would have been targeted. No one inside was involved in combat - Israel had no reason to attack it. He headed over to the rubble of his house and with his relatives began looking for his loved ones, who he soon discovered. Rebuilding his house became a way not only of giving himself somewhere to stay but also of preserving the memory of his family.“This place is my life, it represents all my memories with the family that I lost, thank God,” he said referring to the new building.
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