Maryam Ahmed Ghanem was only about three years old when an Israeli airstrike hit her home in western Gaza City before dawn on October 14, 2026, engulfing the apartment in flames and killing her mother. Journalist Ali al-Jaafarawi carried her out through the fire and smoke. Her father had already been killed earlier in the war. Now she has neither parent.
This is the human cost of the IDF’s butchery: a little girl pulled from her burning home, left to grow up without her mother or father. Saving her life cannot undo what was taken from her. When will those responsible face accountability?
