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‘I walked through the fire all by myself’: An image of a child lays bare barbarism in Gaza

Gaza, long viewed as a gigantic open-air prison, is now a kind of vast black site, where everyone is deemed guilty, where anything can be done to them without recourse to any justice

A little girl lies on a hospital bed waiting for first-aid treatment at Al-Awda Hospital at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, after an Israeli air strike that hit a school in the camp on May 19th. Photograph: Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images
A little girl lies on a hospital bed waiting for first-aid treatment at Al-Awda Hospital at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, after an Israeli air strike that hit a school in the camp on May 19th. Photograph: Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images
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Mark O’Connell
Sat May 31 2025 - 07:00 • 5 MIN READ