Ilham Majid was praying when bombs fell on her Gaza house, and her husband only found her hours later under the rubble, alive but seriously wounded, AFP reports.
She was one of the luckier ones — 17 other family members, including two of her children, were killed in that fateful October 31 raid in the Jabalia refugee camp of northern Gaza, where Israel has been fighting Hamas following deadly attacks earlier that month.
Now, like several other Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, Majid is receiving medical treatment in Egypt.
“All of a sudden I felt the house crumbling. Three stories collapsed on top of me,” the 42-year-old recalled from her hospital bed at Cairo’s Nasser Hospital. “I got shrapnel all over my body. My liver was hit, my leg, ribs and my jaw are all broken. I cannot walk.”
Majid said her husband found her trapped under the rubble of the house by chance four-and-a-half hours later, thanks to one of her fingers that was sticking out. “I almost could not breathe — almost dead,” she said.
