‘What have I done wrong that I have to live without parents?’

POUNDING on the sand, Houda Ghalia shrieked for her father after he was killed with five of her siblings at a seaside picnic by what Palestinians said was an Israeli shell.

Footage of the 10-year-old screaming “Father! Father!” has played over and over again on television, driving home the devastating impact of what Palestinian leaders are calling “genocidal” and “a war crime”.

One of the only members of her family to emerge unscathed, Houda was left questioning her fate.