Twelve-year-old Raghad al-Assar lay unconscious in a Gaza mortuary for eight hours after she was declared dead following an Israeli attack on her home in central Gaza last year.

“We were sitting in our home like everyone else when suddenly bullets, planes and drones came down on us,” she told Al Jazeera.

Al-Assar was saved by chance when a Palestinian man searching for his son’s body in the morgue saw the young girl’s fingers moving as she lay on a cold slab.

“I was in a coma for two weeks, and when I woke up, my family told me that I had been placed in the morgue refrigerator,” she recounted.

Two of al-Assar’s sisters were killed in the attack on June 8, 2024, and other members of her family were hurt as well.

“All my family was injured, and two of my sisters were martyred. My elde

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