Sela Mahmoud, 8, killed in Israeli shelling of a camp for displaced persons
Her last words to her mother were: "I want to eat a whole bowl of lentils until I'm full."
On Monday night, July 21, Alaa Shehada set off trying to get food for her family at the Zikim aid point in northern Gaza, a couple of kilometers from the camp for displaced persons where she was staying with her four children.
She brought her 13-year-old daughter with her and left her three other children behind.
About 1:45am, Alaa says she heard shelling in the distance and immediately feared the worst. “I felt the strike in my heart,” she said. “My intuition as a mother told me this strike reached my kids.”
When she managed to reach one of her daughters by phone, she learned that eight-year-old Sela Mahmoud had been killed. "My heart was broken," says Alaa.
Her other two children at the camp were seriously injured and are in al-Shifa Hospital.
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