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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kaamil Ahmed

‘Scarred for life’: the families still seeking dead amid Gaza rubble

Palestinians search for bodies and survivors under the rubble of a residential building following an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Palestinians search for bodies and survivors under the rubble of a residential building following an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPA

On the 45th day of the bombing of Gaza, eight-year-old Waseem Abedrabou and his father Husam, left the family home for a night to stay with Husam’s mother.

“[His mother Abeer] doesn’t let Waseem sleep a metre away from her, but she let him sleep in that house that day,” said Dina Safi, Waseem’s aunt. “Husam wanted to see his family and Waseem wanted to see his grandma.”

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