At just 11 years old, Dima Abu Ashkayan has no one left “who smells like my family.”
In this video, the young girl from Jabalya R.C. in northern Gaza recounts how she lost her mother and siblings in an Israeli airstrike, and later lost her father in the same way.
Injured and unable to walk, she is now in her aunt’s care.
Dima is one of 58,500 Palestinian children orphaned by Israel’s genocide in Gaza, more than 2,600 of them of both their parents.
The international community must take immediate, effective action to ensure the safety of Gaza’s population, enable free entry of humanitarian aid, and hold Israeli decision-makers accountable for genocide.
People around the world have a moral duty to demand protection for Palestinians and resist Israel’s attempts to erase its crimes and continue perpetuating violence against Palestinians under the ongoing systems of occupation and apartheid