Najwa Abu Aisha was on the roof of her house in northwest Gaza City when shrapnel penetrated her spine and left her paralyzed, joining dozens of Palestinian victims who were injured in the latest round of violence between Israel and the Palestinian factions.

The woman, lying on a bed in Al-Shifa Hospital, west of Gaza City, recounts, "I was on the roof checking the water barrels, when suddenly I heard the sound of an explosion that led to the fall of a water barrel on me and I fell on the neighbor's house. After that, I did not feel anything until I woke up in the hospital."

Abu Aisha, 48, is one of 190 Palestinians injured, of varying degrees, in five days of violence, according to the Ministry of Health in the impoverished coastal enclave controlled by Hamas.

And the woman continues, surrounded by her family members in the hospital room, "I am paralyzed, and I suffer from unbearable pain in the rest of my body. I cannot move."
The woman does not remember how the explosion occurred, but a member of her family told AFP that her house is located next to an Islamic Jihad site.

Her son, who was with her at the time of the accident, still cannot talk about what happened. And his mother continues, "There are no capabilities in Gaza. I hope that there will be a treatment for my condition outside Gaza."

The Israeli army justified the fall of a number of civilian casualties by saying that it "conducted an assessment that showed that the expected collateral damage to civilians and civilian property would not be severe compared to the expected military results from the attacks."

The escalation erupted after Israel targeted three military leaders in the Islamic Jihad movement, which responded by firing dozens of rockets at towns in southern Israel. As a result of the escalation, 35 people were killed, including 33 Palestinians, in the Gaza Strip.

Among the Palestinian dead were six children and three women, while two people were killed in Israel, one of whom was a worker from Gaza.

The recent confrontations were the most violent between Gaza and Israel since August 2022. The United Nations stated, quoting local officials in the Gaza Strip, that the latest round of escalation completely destroyed about 103 homes, while 140 homes were severely damaged.

The doctor, Mutasem Al-Nono, who supervises Abu Aisha, explains that her health condition is "somewhat stable, but she suffers from hemiplegia in the lower extremities. The injury was so severe that she had no hope of regaining movement in her lower extremities."

Her injury also meant cutting off the financial income of the family that supported her through her work in a kindergarten.

Hazem Muhanna, 62, who collects antiques, says that the destruction of his house in an Israeli raid on Gaza City "destroyed our dreams and our future."

"If they had destroyed my house and five other houses, it would have been easier for me than destroying the artifacts and artifacts that I cherish," he says, holding old banknotes and a jug inscribed with ornaments found among the rubble.

The man, a retired security employee, bemoans the possessions he collected from his salary decades ago to turn his home into an "art museum."

His elderly mother sits on a plastic chair in the narrow alley, while members of the family try to search for more salvageable items from the rubble.
Muhanna says that his brother received a phone call from the Israeli army on the night of the bombing warning him of the need to evacuate the house before it was bombed. "I don't know why the house was targeted. My daughters and sons and 50 other people were in the house," he says denouncing.

The Israeli army said it sought to warn Gazans before each imminent bombardment, explaining in a statement that "the buildings were not bombed until after the civilian population was completely evacuated."

Muhammad Sarsour, 29, was weeks away from his wedding date, but his dreams were shattered when one of his neighbors told him of the need to vacate his house, which he had recently finished preparing for his married life.

He continues, referring to his apartment in the city of Deir al-Balah in the center of the Strip, whose floor was covered with broken glass and deep cracks appeared in its walls, "I returned home and did not find anything, not a window, nor a bedroom, nor a door."

The shocked young man says, "I am devastated. I have nothing left to do in my life. For seven years I have been struggling to prepare the house. I work from early morning until evening, with 1,000 shekels (nine dollars), which I collect shekels for building my future. It's all gone." something in a day and a night.

He still has to pay installments for the home furnishings, but he has given up hope despite reaching a truce between the Israeli and Palestinian sides. He says, "Every two months or a year there is a war. We do not live. Our life is difficult. There is no life."