Nabil Siyam, 34, who lost his arm and sustained other injuries stands with his son, Badruddin, five, at their home in Rafa, Gaza. Nabil and his son were injured when an Israeli bomb exploded outside their home on 21 July. The explosion killed Nabil’s wife, Shireen. and four of his children. The attack also claimed the lives of his two brothers, their wives and three of their children, who were staying at the house. Badruddin lost a kidney
Palestinian woman Safa Fayez, 29, pulls herself up the staircase of her home in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. She was seriously wounded by shrapnel when Israel Defence Forces shells hit a UN school crowded by hundreds of Palestinians seeking shelter. The attack on 24 July 2014 killed 15 Palestinians and wounded many others, including Fayez’s baby and husband. Fayez, who has four children, said she had just left the classroom she was staying in with her family and was heading outside to wait for a Red Cross bus when the attack occurred
A beam of light shines through the damaged home of Ramba Kafanah as she breastfeeds her newborn baby in the kitchen. Her home was heavily damaged during the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas
Mustafa Majedah, 19, during a rehabilitation session at the Artificial Limbs and Polio Centre in Gaza City. Majedah lost his legs when a bomb hit his home in Khan Younis
Yamen Achemd Abu Jaber, four, with his uncle, Adnan Abu Jaber, in Nussarat, Gaza. Yamen was severely burned when his family’s home was hit by an Israeli air strike in the El Bourj refugee camp in Gaza. Eighteen family members were killed including his mother, father, grandfather and five-year-old sister. Adnan is now taking care of his brother’s orphaned son and says the boy frequently wakes during the night screaming from nightmaresAmal el Rafati, 30, receives rehabilitation treatment from a nurse from the Palestinian Medical Relief Society in the bedroom of her home in Jabaliya, Gaza. She was seriously wounded and her husband and three-year-old daughter were among the 16 Palestinians killed who were taking shelter at the facility. Both her legs and neck were injured in the attackBrothers Achmed, five, and Hussama, seven, use the top of an umbrella as a prayer carpet among the ruins of the Omar Abed El Aziz mosque in Beit Hanoun during Friday prayers Photograph: Heidi Levine/Sipa/RexSharif al-Namlah, three, plays in the bath at his home in Rafa, Gaza. The lower part of his left leg was blown off when Israeli rockets hit the family. His mother, Asraah, lost both her legs and his father, Wael, lost one leg on 1 August 2014, one of the darkest days during the war which has been named Black Friday. The family was attacked as they tried to flee to a safer area after Israeli fire hit near their homePalestinian Manar Shabari sits in her wheelchair by her prosthetic legs, which have been fitted with festive shoes to be worn at her brother’s wedding at a relative’s home in Jabaliya, Gaza. Shabari, 14, was severely injured on 24 July during an Israeli military assault on the UN school in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. Her mother and brother and three other family members were among those killed at the school, where hundreds of displaced civilians were taking shelterPalestinian bride Anaan El Harazen, 24, sits in the damaged salon of her family’s home as she waits to be photographed with family members before her wedding in the Shujai’iya neighbourhood of eastern GazaPalestinian children dressed in their party clothes wait for bride Anaan El Harazen, 24, in the family’s damaged home as they prepare for a wedding in the Shujai’iya neighbourhood
