Before the war started in Gaza, Moustafa Ahmed Shehda would run around and play with his friends. Now, the 12-year-old is one of a growing number of Palestinians in the territory who’ve lost a limb in a bombing.
Moustafa is from Jabalia in northern Gaza, which has been hit particularly hard in the fighting. Early on in the war between Israel and Hamas, he was visiting his uncle when the apartment building was bombed.
“I was under the rubble. I couldn’t feel anything. I couldn’t breathe,” Moustafa told Mohamed El Saife, a freelance journalist in Gaza working for CBC News.
His uncle was killed, and Moustafa was
