It was their sixth attempt in a week, a perilous trek down Gaza’s southern coast towards a US-backed food distribution site. Abed Zaydan, 14, and his mother Reem hoped that, this time, they would arrive before the food ran out.
Eight hours into their walk on Tuesday, as they neared the centre, the sound of tank and gunfire erupted. Zaydan saw dead bodies at his feet. He lay face down on the ground next to them with his sister and mother, waiting for first light. People began to whisper that it might be safe to move.
From the ground, Zaydan saw his mother start to stand up, before a sniper bullet felled her with a shot to the head. “Because I’m young, I got scared and left my mother,” he said. “I ran away.”
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