The photo of a girl in Gaza killed by an Israeli airstrike while wearing pink roller skates goes viral and draws attention to the plight of children nearly a year into the war.
A Palestinian family mourns the death of their daughter, who was killed in an Israeli attack as she was heading to play while wearing her roller skates, in Gaza City, Gaza, on Sept. 4.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 40,000 people have been killed by Israeli fire in the war, a third of them children.and uncertainty. She and her family had fled on foot from one place to another eight times in the past 11 months, sometimes in the middle of the night. The Israeli military says it takes precautions to limit civilian deaths in its hunt for Hamas, the group that launched the Oct. 7 attack that Israel says killed around 1,200 people.
Abu Ajwa says the airstrike wounded several children, still hospitalized, and killed eight other people, including a neighbor’s toddler son and the Kiheel family comprising the husband and wife, their three young children, and the kids' two grandparents.Abu Ajwa was a high school chemistry teacher before the war. His job meant he could afford the basics and some extras to lavish onto his eldest daughter, Tala.
Abu Ajwa says he tried his best to keep the family safe, but the booms of Israeli airstrikes scared Tala at night. She’d run and curl up in his arms.
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