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Raghad al-Assar, 12, continues to suffer trauma after her home in central Gaza was bombed, killing two of her sisters.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Twelve-year-old Raghad al-Assar lay unconscious in a Gaza mortuary for eight hours after she was declared dead following an Israeli attack on her home in central Gaza last year.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were sitting in our home like everyone else when suddenly bullets, planes and drones came down on us,\u201d she told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Al-Assar was saved by chance when a Palestinian man searching for his son\u2019s body in the morgue saw the young girl\u2019s fingers moving as she lay on a cold slab.<\/p>\n \u201cI was in a coma for two weeks, and when I woke up, my family told me that I had been placed in the morgue refrigerator,\u201d she recounted.<\/p>\n Two of al-Assar\u2019s sisters were killed in the attack on June 8, 2024, and other members of her family were hurt as well.<\/p>\n \u201cAll my family was injured, and two of my sisters were martyred. My eldest sister\u2019s condition is worse than mine. She can\u2019t see in one eye, has burns, deep wounds and stomach problems,\u201d al-Assar revealed.<\/p>\n Her story is one of the many to emerge from Israel\u2019s war on Gaza, which United Nations experts have described as a genocide.<\/p>\n According to the UN Children\u2019s Fund, some 64,000 children have \u201creportedly been killed or maimed\u201d in Israeli attacks on coastal Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s war on Gaza has killed at least 69,187 Palestinians and wounded 170,703 since its start in October 2023.<\/p>\n Al-Assar\u2019s father, Mohammed, was working when his house was attacked. A relative had called to tell him what happened.<\/p>\n \u201cNews came to me that my house was targeted. I was at work, not at home. I rushed from work to the hospital to check what happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe went to the house to look for Raghad under the rubble. We did not find any sign of her.\u201d<\/p>\n After he reunited with his daughter, Mohammed noticed the attack had completely changed her.<\/p>\n \u201cThe incident that occurred to her changed her mental health and personality into another person,\u201d he explained. \u201cThere would be incidents where we walk on the street, where she faints while we\u2019re walking on the street.\u201d<\/p>\n Al-Assar told Al Jazeera she suffers from nightmares and anxiety whenever she recalls the day of the attack.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t like to remember, don\u2019t want to hear war sounds, and avoid things that bring back memories. If I hear bombing or planes, I get frightened,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Her family is hoping to get al-Assar and her sister medical treatment abroad.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to go abroad for treatment. That is my dream,\u201d al-Assar said. \u201cIt is a child\u2019s right to live just like other people abroad \u2014 for them to have play and have wellbeing.\u201d<\/p>\n Two years of Israeli bombardment across Gaza have destroyed many health facilities and killed hundreds of medics, resulting in the collapse of the territory\u2019s medical infrastructure.<\/p>\n While Hamas and Israel agreed last month to a ceasefire, Israel continues to conduct attacks on the enclave, and at least 260 people have been killed since the truce began on October 10.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Raghad al-Assar, 12, continues to suffer trauma after her home in central Gaza was bombed, killing two of her sisters. 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