Sama Tabeel, an eight-year-old girl, sits in a tent camp west of Khan Younis in Gaza, braiding the hair on her toy — something she can no longer do on herself after losing most of her hair.
Sama Tabeel touches her head, feeling the last pieces of hair left. The eight-year-old lost most of her hair a few days after she and her family fled Rafah after the Israeli Defence Forces took control of the area in southern Gaza, targeting a hospital they were seeking shelter in. For months now, eight-year-old Sama Tabeel wakes up every morning in a tent camp in the southern Gaza Strip, picks up a broken piece of mirror, and looks at herself, praying that her hair has miraculously grown back.
"My daughter got so scared, she was panicking. The shrapnel and the strikes were very intense," Fattah said. Young girls mourn the Palestinians killed during Israeli strikes at a hospital, in Khan Younison on Nov. 3, 2023. Despite living her entire life in blockaded Gaza and living in a war zone for close to a year, the hair loss crystallized the grief and hardship Sama has already endured at such a young age.
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