My Son Was Killed in My Arms, My Husband beside Me – A Gaza Mother’s Testimony

By Asil Hamad

In a harrowing testimony, a Gazan mother describes surviving a hospital attack, burying her son, and searching in vain for her husband’s body.

My name is Asil Mahmoud Hamad, and I am from Gaza. I had a family of four: myself, my husband, Ahmed Abu Watfa, and our two children—Zakariya, who was 6 years old, and Yahya, who is 4.

We were living a peaceful, beautiful…