A Palestinian boy carries a bicycle from the wreckage of a building in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on Saturday. Photo: AFP
Gaza City: Mohamed Badran is just 10 years old but already he has lost more than most people will in a lifetime.
He is the only surviving member of his immediate family of 10 following an Israeli air strike on his home in the crowded Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza on July 30.
And now he is blind, rendered sightless in the attack that stole his family from him, in one of dozens of “mass family deaths” at the hands of the Israel Defence Forces since this latest round of hostilities began on July 8.
Palestinians survey the damage from a window in Rafah after the ceasefire failed and bombardment resumed on Saturday. Photo: AFP
Doctors are now trying to save one of his eye sockets so he can have at least one prosthetic eye, but so severe is his head injury that even that is touch and go.