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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Linah Alsaafin, Ruwaida Amer

People with disabilities not spared by Israel’s war machine on Gaza Strip

A Palestinian on a wheelchair passes by ruins of buildings destroyed in Israeli attacks, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, October 9, 2023 [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]

Gaza Strip – Heba Abu Jazar cannot hear the sound of the bombs exploding, but she can feel their intensity deeply.

The 28-year-old, along with her two brothers, was born deaf, but the magnitude of the powerful blasts can be seen and felt in the vibrations of the doors and windows in their home in the southern city of Rafah, close to the border between Gaza and Egypt.

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