Amani Jasser Al-Khor hopes that her children will be buried so that their bodies will have a place that she can visit (Anatolia)

Although 4 months have passed since the bombing of the home of Palestinian Amani Jasser Al-Khor by the Israeli army, she is still impatiently waiting for the bodies of her missing children to be removed from under the rubble, so that she can bury them.

On International Women's Day, Amani (32 years old) appears with signs of sadness and pain on her face, as she is impatiently awaiting that moment that will enable her to hold the funeral of her four children and know where they are buried so that she can visit them at any time she wishes.

Al Khor faces the suffering of losing her family, as no one in her family survived except her young child.

As a result of the bombing of her three-storey house in the Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City, the Palestinian woman was forced to flee to the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, accompanied by her child, after her husband and five of her children were martyred.

This mother and her child survived the Israeli bombing when they were visiting her father’s house in the Beach camp, west of Gaza City.

When she returned from the visit, she was surprised by the bombing of her house without prior warning or justification. The Palestinian Civil Defense team was able to recover the bodies of her husband and one of her children on that day, while 4 others remained under the rubble.

Amani Al-Khor displays a picture of her husband and daughter who were martyred in an Israeli raid (Anatolia)

I live to take care of my child

Al-Khor currently resides in a modest hut made of tin and cloth, where she faces the challenges of daily life that she faces in light of the difficult circumstances she is experiencing as a result of the loss of her husband and five of her children.

On International Women's Day, women in the Gaza Strip witness the suffering of losing children and husbands as a result of the barbaric Israeli war on the Strip, where Amani Al-Khor lives in a difficult humanitarian situation due to the war and the lack of suitable shelter, food and money.

She said, "The Palestinian woman is a symbol of steadfastness and patience. She is the mother of martyrs and wounded, the sister of martyrs, and the wife of martyrs."

She added: "I continue to live despite the loss of my husband and children, relying on my will to provide the best life for my only child who is left to me."

She pointed out that "women in the Gaza Strip were subjected to many violations during the war, as many of them were killed, others were displaced, and some were exposed to difficult humanitarian conditions, in addition to their injuries that required urgent health care."

Amani Al-Khor is living in a difficult humanitarian situation due to the war and the lack of suitable shelter, food and money (Anatolia)

Resilience and fears

In light of the war that destroyed everything in Gaza, Al-Khor expresses her concern about the danger of Israel launching a military operation against the city of Rafah, where she took refuge after her displacement from Gaza City.

According to the government media office in the Gaza Strip, there are still about 7,000 people missing under the rubble in Gaza, as relief teams were unable to extract them due to the ongoing bombing and lack of fuel, and it is estimated that 70% of the missing are children and women.

On the anniversary of International Women’s Day, Palestinian women are experiencing an unprecedented, tragic reality. They are either widows, bereaved, or bereaved, and at other times missing, as a result of the devastating Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

Perhaps the most difficult thing that may confront Palestinian women on their International Day this year is that their desired goal is to extract their martyred sons from under the rubble, while other mothers around the world dream of something much different than that.

Source: Al Jazeera + Anatolia