"last year. We were sitting in our home like everyone else when suddenly bullets, planes and drones came down on us, she told Al Jazeera. list of 3 itemsend of list Al-Assar was saved by chance when a Palestinian man searching for his son's body in the morgue saw the young girl's fingers moving as she lay on a cold slab."
"I was in a coma for two weeks, and when I woke up, my family told me that I had been placed in the morgue refrigerator, she recounted. Two of al-Assar's sisters were killed in the attack on June 8, 2024, and other members of her family were hurt as well. All my family was injured, and two of my sisters were martyred. My eldest sister's condition is worse than mine. She can't see in one eye, has burns, deep wounds and stomach problems,"
"Her story is one of the many to emerge from Israel's war on Gaza, which United Nations experts have described as a genocide. According to the UN Children's Fund, some 64,000 children have reportedly been killed or maimed in Israeli attacks on coastal Palestinian territory. Israel's war on Gaza has killed at least 69,187 Palestinians and wounded 170,703 since its start in October 2023."
"Al-Assar's father, Mohammed, was working when his house was attacked. A relative had called to tell him what happened. News came to me that my house was targeted. I was at work, not at home. I rushed from work to the hospital to check what happened, he said. We went to the house to look for Raghad under the rubble. We did not find any sign of her."
Raghad al-Assar, 12, was declared dead after an Israeli attack on her home in central Gaza and lay unconscious in a mortuary for eight hours. A man searching for his son's body noticed her fingers moving and she was revived after a two-week coma. Two of her sisters were killed on June 8, 2024, and other family members were injured; her eldest sister suffers blindness in one eye, burns, deep wounds and stomach problems. The attack has altered Raghad's mental health and personality. United Nations experts have described Israel's campaign in Gaza as genocide, and UN agencies report tens of thousands of child casualties.
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