A woman cradles a child in her arms, delicately balanced on her knee. It is an image that resonates, as ancient as human history.
But in a grim inversion of the familiar, we see that the child she holds close is a corpse, wrapped in a shroud. It is a quiet moment of intense grief. The woman wears a headscarf, her head bowed, her face convulsed with grief. You cannot tell if the child she is weeping over is a boy or girl.
The child is one of many who have lost their lives on both sides in the Israel-Hamas war. Most have names we will never know, whose deaths will spark a lifetime of grief for family members we will never meet.
In the 21st century, an average of almost 20 children a day have been killed or maimed in wars around the world, according to UNICEF.
Reuters photographer Mohammad Salem was in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17 at the Nasser Hospital morgue, where residents were going to search for missing relatives.He saw the woman squatting on the ground in the morgue, sobbing and tightly embracing the child’s body.
“It was a powerful and a sad moment, and I felt the picture sums up the broader sense of what was happening in the Gaza Strip,” he said. “People were confused, running from one place to another, anxious to know the fate of their loved ones, and this woman caught my eye as she was holding the body of the little girl and refused to let go.”
The moment was particularly poignant for Mohammad, whose wife gave birth just days before.
In Gaza, where there have been communications blackouts, tracing people has been fraught with difficulties. But two weeks after the photo was taken, Reuters was able to track down the woman in the photo and interview her at her home in Khan Younis.
She is Inas Abu Maamar, 36, and the body she was holding in the photo was that of her 5-year-old niece, Saly.
Inas had raced to the house of her uncle when she had heard that it had been hit and then on to the morgue.
“I lost my conscience when I saw the girl. I took her in my arms,” she said. “The doctor asked me to let go, … but I told them to leave her with me.”
Saly’s mother and sister were also killed along with Inas’s uncle and aunt. Saly was a favourite of Inas – she used to drop by her grandmother’s house on the way to kindergarten and ask her aunt to take photos of her.
“Most of the videos and pictures in my mobile are of her,” Ines said.
Saly’s 4-year-old brother, Ahmed, was outside the house when it was struck and survived. He is now living with Inas. He rarely speaks, other than to ask where Saly is.
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List of Palestinian Evacuation And Support Fundraisers
Last Update: 05/10/2024
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Fadi Al-Sharif and family ($18,148/$62,500 goal)
Hayam Taha and family (€11,803/€30,000 goal)
Deyaa and family (€10,564/€20,000 goal)
Fatima Alshanti (kr16,840 SEK/kr150,000 goal)
Shahed Ghazi and family ($9,415 CAD/$94,838 goal)
Little Yusuf and family (€12,097/€85,000 goal)
Sara & Huda Hajjaj and family ($7,135/$15,000 goal)
Mohammed JH Shamia's family (kr35,473 SEK/kr250,000 goal)
Maram Ahmed and family (€2,610/€30,000 goal)
Hamza Almofty and family ($4,817/$35,000 goal)
Mahmoud Jomaa (€2,256/€10,000 goal)
Dr. Mohammed Shara ($1,781/$20,000 goal)
Abdulrahman Alshanti and family (kr143,352 SEK/kr350,000 goal)
Besan Almabhouh's family (€7,338/€25,000 goal)
Said Tanani and brothers (€33,197/€50,000 goal)
Donia Tanani and family (€71,717/€100,000 goal)
Hussein Shamiya, his pregnant wife, and son ($11,654/$40,000 goal)
Mohammed Shamia and family ($21,366/$35,000 goal)
Amro Bakr & kids Bakir and Tala (€5,600/€15,000 goal)
Almadhoun family ($19,893/$80,000 goal)
Child Mohammed (€15,609/€20,000 goal)
Sana'a and family (£22,820/£50,000 goal)
Noha Ayyad and family ($26,872/$95,160 goal)
Maryam Ayyad and family ($1,000/$15,000 goal) - Maryam is related to Noha listed above, who is managing her fundraiser.
Hamza Sameer and family ($4,120/$55,000 goal)
Hamza is related to Noha, he is her uncle’s son.
Nazmi Mwafi and family ($6,143/65,000 goal)
Ibrahim Almofty and family ($6,137/$40,000 goal)
Hamdi Hejazi and family ($17,624/$25,000 goal)
Mohammed and family ($8,911/$25,000 goal)
Heba and family (€42,952/€60,000 goal)
Mohammed Abuhasanein and family (kr7,220 SEK/kr 350,000 goal!!!)
Rawan and Yemna (kr30,408 SEK/kr319,315 goal)
Laila Auda (€5,535/€35,000 goal)
Ola Madi (€973/€40,000 goal!!!)
Tawfik Satoom and family ($5,440/$45,000 goal)
Laila Abd El Bari, her husband, and unborn baby Sham (€2,486/€25,000 goal)
Abdullah Mohammed and family ($4,871/$47,000 goal)
Ruba Abushaban and family (€7,503/€50,000 goal)
Hala, her husband, and their daughter ($4,978 CAD/$50,000 goal)
Hoda and Abdul Rahman ($1,646/$18,000 goal)
Al Maghari family (£1,913/£74,000 goal)
Arwa Abudawaba and family (kr230,774/kr500,000 goal)
Hani Alhajjar’s family (€10,224/€50,000 goal)
Ouda family ($16,086 CAD/$50,000 goal)
Rawan Ahmed and family ($7,339/$40,000 goal)
Dr. Wael Eldahdouh's family (€3,357/€110,000 goal)
Abdullah Lulu and family ($2,208/$6,000 goal)
Lara, Abdalla, and family (€7,032/€50,000 goal)
Firas Salem and family (€7,555/€20,000 goal)
Amal Abu Shammala's family (€38,106/€47,000 goal)
Dr. Mohammed Alshaer and family (€2,949/€18,000 goal)
Roqaya Al-Hayek and Mohammad Jamal Al-Hayek (€12,653/€25,000 goal)
Haya and family (€3,178/€60,000 goal)
Mohammed Dahdooh and family (£33,011/£45,000 goal)
Ahmad Iyd and family (£215/£150,000 goal)
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