Gaza/Nawa Network-Filastiniyat:
Amina Ahmad AlKhateb sits in her grandfather's home in Al-Nusayrat camp, which is packed in the center of the Gaza Strip; she hasn't completed ten years.
She is trying to adapt to a new life condition without a father or mother, or any sister or brother; she spends most of the time drawing memories, which haunt her every time she closes her eyes.
She always talks about the moment that changed her life forever, when she was targeted at her home, which was already displaced with her family when they searched about saif place. "I was thinking that all happening was a dream, or my siblings were joking with me, but it wasn't. After a few moments, I started to feel suffocated..I was calling them with their names, but no one answered."
On 7 October 2023, when the Genocide war started in the Gaza Strip, the Aminas family was forced to flee from Al-Magharqa to Al-Nuseirat.
She tells "NAWA": "My mother said to us, pray Maghrib, then take my phone and watch something on it; my mother gathered on a big pillow, me and my siblings, Obida, Layan, and Siwar; while mom, Dad, and AbdAlrahman were in another room, and we started watching a cartoons."
It happened on 5 July 2024. Amina didn't know that would be the last night with her family.
It was only a minute before the house was reduced to rubble. Amina was trapped under the rubble. She didn't understand what had happened; her body felt trapped and her breathing became difficult, but she thought she was dreaming and kept waiting for her brothers to wake her up.
The people and civil defense men rescued her after two hours from under the rubble, and her feet broken, then she discovered that all her family had been killed.
The tragedy is not over yet. After a week when Amina lived in her aunt's home, she was trying to understand what had happened in her life and her family's absence, There was another rocket above the home she lived in. She added, "In mid-September, it happened. This time, I lost my grandmother, my uncle, and my cousin, while the explosion threw me from the third floor."
She describes the scene: "I found myself behind the outer yard door of the house. I screamed a lot and called for help, but everyone thought I had been martyred because they couldn't find me under the rubble of the house."
Today, Amina lives with her relatives, who took care of her and looked after her with love, but she feels that life is no longer the same. She points with her hand to a corner in the room and remembers everything that happened in the second airstrike and says: "I was here on the day of the bombing, and here was my grandmother, and here was my uncle and my cousin."
The scene is engraved in her memory, it can't be erased from her memory. She continues: 'I miss them so much. Every day I wake up and turn my face around me, but I don't see anyone from them."
She adds, while crying: "The memories that used to comfort my heart over the absence of my family are lost in the second room of my aunt's house. The phone recordings and the sound of my mother all disappeared with the phone."
Amina was living with a broken heart, but she is a very strong child because she says "I'm a witness to the crime and I will tell everything that happens to all the "world that I am still alive.
Amina is trying to complete her learning and return her small heart after the massacre that happened to her family. Ramadan and Eid came without her mother, and she describes her "The home was very peaceful and had a positive energy when she was in the life."
Amina was living with a broken heart, but she is a very strong child because she says; "I'm a witness to the crime and I will tell everything that happens to all the world that I am still alive". I will complete my mom's dream and be a doctor to help the sick people, the injured, and the poor people. And she will not forget his city, Al-Mjdal, whose families were displaced by Israeli occupation in 1948.
