She Survived Bombs, But Not the Fear: Remembering My Friend Haya

By Alaa Hijazi

The terror was too much for her heart to bear. It stopped suddenly. She collapsed into seizures and lost consciousness.

On the morning of the third day of Eid, there were no celebrations at Al-Maidan Kuwaiti Hospital. The machines groaned, exhausted bodies filled every corner, and the silence, occasionally interrupted by the moans of patients, was heavier than any other sound.

On one of the…