From the heart of the rubble, and through the depths of pain, an undefeatable joy blooms in Gaza. A young girl performs the 'Dabke' in the air, while a small hand raises the Palestinian flag as if to embrace the sky. After Iftar, amidst a festive atmosphere despite the siege.
On this day 24 years ago, the world watched, helplessly, as Jamal al-Durrah tried to protect his 12-year-old son Muhammad from Israeli bullets that rained down on them in Gaza for 40 minutes. Despite pleads, Israeli soldiers intentionally shot Muhammad in the stomach, whose final moments of fear and horror were caught on camera and streamed by France TV, and injured his father.
Muhammad became the defining and haunting image of the Second Intifada.
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The child, Atef Taya, is sick with cancer and suffering from malnutrition, and his mother appeals to the World Health Organization to facilitate his travel outside Gaza so that he can receive treatment and save his life as quickly as possible.