Gaza widows and orphans struggle with loss in makeshift camp - BBC News

A woman tells the BBC she had just given birth when her husband was hit by Israeli naval fire.

2 days agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warImage caption, Zouahra says her husband was killed when he was hit in the head by fire from an Israeli gunboatBy Fergal KeaneBBC News, JerusalemIn the moments when she is not in the tent caring for the children, Zouahra looks out at the sea that forms the western border of her world. On this sunny day it is blue and when the sun sets, gold and red shades will colour the horizon.

It is the same sea that washes the beaches of Tel Aviv to the north, and ebbs and floods along all the coasts of the Mediterranean. And it is the sea from which, Zouahra says, a shell from an Israeli gunboat brought death to her husband.

"He was on his way to the seaside where there were cars and an aid convoy… It was crowded, and the military boats started firing at people. My husband was hit in the head," she says.

That was on 9 February - but Zouahra, who now lives in a section of a camp housing widows and orphans, did not find out immediately.

The 26-year-old mother had just given birth to her fourth child.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68471121

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