Girl has multiple surgeries to control infections after strike in Gaza — SkimNews
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- Raseel al-Balawi, a 6-year-old in Gaza, has undergone more than 20 surgeries since an Israeli air strike injured her in late July at al-Mawasi camp.
- Witnesses say Raseel's tent was struck by an Israeli helicopter, and she now requires frequent operations to try to control infections in her wounds.
- Israel's military says it has no record of the attack but "regrets any harm to civilians."
- BBC Eye Investigations spent time with Raseel across the summer as the ceasefire faltered and bombardment continued.
- The BBC World Service filmed across Gaza to document how children are coping amid the near-total destruction of the infrastructure they rely on to survive.
Why it matters: Raseel's case, in which the Israeli military denies any record of the strike that left a child with 20+ surgeries, crystallizes the accountability gap between documented civilian casualties on the ground and official Israeli acknowledgment as a faltering ceasefire fails to stop bombardment.
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