The last thing Elham Abu Hajjaj remembers from the Israeli bombing of her Gaza City home is that her mother held her and prayed.

When Hajjaj woke up, she found herself in a hospital with a machine on her stomach and her “whole body trembling,” Abu Hajjaj told Al Jazeera.

“I touched my body and it was all burned,” she said. “A doctor was speaking to me, and I asked him where my father and mother were. He didn’t answer me.”

The Israeli attack in Gaza City’s al-Saffaweh area had killed both her parents and left Abu Hajjaj – who is nine years old – with third-degree burns.

She is not alone in the horrific fallout from Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza . Nearly 42,000 people – about 2 percent of Gaza’s population – have received “life-changing” injuries, the World Health Organization (WHO) e

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