Palestinians reel from repeated strikes on 'humanitarian zones'

The cuts on her feet from a strike she survived two weeks earlier had yet to heal, Asma Al-Sarafendi said, before more shrapnel embedded itself into the flesh of her leg during a strike this week on a designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza.

The cuts on her feet from a strike she survived two weeks earlier had yet to heal, Asma Al-Sarafendi said, before more shrapnel embedded itself into the flesh of her leg during a strike this week on a designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza.

The Wednesday strike on Al-Mawasi began just after midnight, Al-Sarafendi said, as she was sleeping with her husband and five children — Mouna, Shorouq, Layla, Asaad and Mhamad. They were awoken by aircraft overhead before flames engulfed the area around their tent, she told an NBC News crew in Gaza.

“People screaming, people on fire, men taking the children outside,” Al-Sarafendi said, describing the moments that followed. “We were all injured.”

She and one daughter suffered shrapnel wounds, while another’s scarf melted onto her skin, Al-Sarafendi said. Her husband, Abu Mustapha Al-Sarafendi, took their son and another daughter to the hospital with burns and shrapnel wounds, she added.

“I don’t have any news about them,” Al-Sarafendi said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/palestinians-reel-repeated-strikes-humanitarian-zones-rcna158126

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