The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a school in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on 20 August. Hadi Daoud APA Images
On 3 August at 7 pm, Israeli occupation forces struck al-Hamama and al-Huda schools in Gaza’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.
Seventeen people were killed and more than 60 were injured.
Those martyred and injured are not just numbers.
An hour before the bombings, struggling with famine and difficult living conditions in the north, Ahmed Nayef Ayish, 16, the brother of a close friend of mine, had asked his sister Jumana if he could go to the tailor to get a torn shoe fixed since he couldn’t afford a new one.