- Waad says she started running, searching for her brothers. “I checked my body as I ran — ‘Are my eyes in place? Is my head OK? My legs, my hands, my face?’” she recalled thinking.
- “I was running around, surrounded by corpses, blood, [scattered] pots of [the] children who had lined up at the food kitchen, and gallons of water,” she said.
- “I saw people carrying a young man with a shattered leg, and another young man running behind them with an amputated leg, screaming, ‘I found his leg,’” she said quietly, at some points crying as she recalled the attack.
- “I saw a pregnant woman lying on the ground, bleeding from between her legs, next to an injured child whose arm was gone.”
… “Surviving here is a matter of luck. Every one of us waits for his turn in this ongoing genocide,” Badee’ said.
… “The scene was terrifying. Children were dismembered. There was blood everywhere. Rubble fell directly on the tents of the displaced in the middle of the hospital,” al-Hasanat recalled, looking frightened as she sat in the courtyard in front of the part of the school that was hit.
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