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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Nidal al-Mughrabi

Palestinians sift through rubble at Gaza camp hit in Israeli strike

Asharaf Al-Qaissi, a Palestinian man who agreed to have his house demolished to make way for rescue operations after neighbouring houses were destroyed in Israeli air strikes that killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander, gestures as he sits on the rubble of his house, in Rafah in southern Gaza Strip, August 7, 2022. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

When Israeli rockets slammed into her neighbourhood in a crowded refugee camp in the Gaza strip on Saturday night, 9-year-old Leen Matar said she was so scared that she began to recite Islam's final prayers.

"We were at my grandfather’s house when suddenly the rubble started to fall on us," she told Reuters from a hospital bed, her father beside her as she was treated for a broken leg. "We started to cry until the neighbours arrived and rescued us."

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