‘These are traps set for the people’: the story of a mother shot dead searching for food in Gaza
c/world · u/pete_link@lemmy.ml · 99 points
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31312038
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem
Sat 7 Jun 2025 01.00 EDT
"Reem Zeidan was terrified of being separated from her children. As they trudged for hours through the ruins of Gaza towards a food distribution centre, she rehearsed over and over again with her 20-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son what they should do and where they should wait if an Israeli attack turned the column of hungry people into a chaotic, panicking mass and the family were torn apart.
It was the last conversation she had with them. She was dead before dawn broke on Tuesday, killed by a single bullet through her forehead. Her daughter and son spent nearly three hours beside her body, pinned down by gunfire."