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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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A horrifying photograph and an invitation declined

Yazan Abu Ful, a 2-year-old malnourished child, at his family home in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on 23 July.
Yazan Abu Ful, a 2-year-old malnourished child, at his family home in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on 23 July. Photograph: Jehad Alshrafi/AP

I recoiled in horror at the image of a mother in Gaza with her skeletally starved child published alongside the report on the front page of your print edition (‘We have faced hunger before, but never like this’, 24 July).

Over a year ago I received a letter from the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem notifying me of their honour awarded to my Polish grandparents for saving Roza, a Jewish schoolgirl friend of my father’s sister in 1942, and providing her with false papers, by which she was able to survive the war with great courage and heroism.

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