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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Julian Borger and Sufian Taha in Nur Shams camp, Tulkarm, West Bank

‘There was no mercy, even on children’: trauma in the West Bank after Israeli raids

A scene in the West Bank on Saturday.
A scene in the West Bank on Saturday. Photograph: Sufian Taha/The Observer

When Israeli soldiers arrived at the modest house along an alleyway in Nur Shams camp on Wednesday night, they sent the women and four of the children out into the street, but kept hold of Malak Shihab.

They took the muzzle off their dog and it went straight up to the slight 10-year-old girl and sniffed her. Terrified, she pleaded to be with her mother, but the soldiers seemed to have just one phrase in accented Arabic: “Open the doors.”

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