Raghad al-Assar, 12, continues to suffer trauma after her home in central Gaza was bombed, killing two of her sisters.Twelve-year-old Raghad al-Assar lay unconscious in a Gaza mortuary for eight hours after she was declared dead following an Israeli attack on her home in central Gaza 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.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listAl-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,” al-Assar revealed.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.‘Changed her into another person’Al-Assar’s father, Moham …
