A teenager was hit by a stray bullet a month ago. It is still lodged near her spine.
It only took a moment for a bullet to lodge itself into 14-year-old Salma Alyazji’s back.
It only took a moment for a bullet to lodge itself into 14-year-old Salma Alyazji’s back. A month later, it is still there.
“It didn’t change part of my life, it changed my entire life,” Salma said.
The 14-year-old scholarship student was shot Jan. 25, said her father, Ehab Alyazji, and, in the month since, Salma is no closer to getting the critical surgery she needs, even as the injury transforms her life.
It’s not clear who fired the bullet that hit Salma. There were no clashes nearby at the time but she heard one shot ring through the building where her family and many others were sheltering in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. She went to check to make sure no one was hurt, when she heard a second shot.
“I felt a lot of pain and heat in my back and I began to get dizzy,” she said.
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