12-year-old girl's face ‘ripped off’ after rocket strike, Israel blocks evacuation

At al-Aqsa hospital, doctors used what little resources they had to stitch Mazyouna’s face back together and hold the remaining structure in place
12-year-old girl's face ‘ripped off’ after rocket strike, Israel blocks evacuation

12-year-old Mazyouna pictured with her dad Ahmed Damoo after the attack 

It was the morning of 8 June when Ahmed Damoo got the call that his home, a small concrete building in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, had been hit by an IDF rocket.

When he returned to what was left of his house, he found his family buried beneath the rubble.

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