Mithil Aggarwal is a Hong Kong-based reporter/producer for NBC News.
Warning: This article contains graphic images. In a leveled neighborhood in the city of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, a group of men digging through the rubble found first one hand, then another. When they lifted the body of 11-year-old Sila Hamdan out of the broken cement blocks and dust, they found her sister, 9-year-old Tila, tucked beneath her. The girls were killed Tuesday night when a bombing destroyed some 15 homes in the area, killing at least 37, according to local health officials.
Medical personnel struggled to cope with the hundreds of injuries coming through the doors every day, many of them children. At Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Dr. Akram Ala’auiny murmured reassurances to 6-year-old Zina Alabarshly, who was whimpering and streaked with ash. He told her that she was good, not to be afraid, that she would be going home soon — as medical personnel checked her for injuries. He grabbed a latex glove, blew it up like a balloon, and handed it to her.
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