‘It’s not fair … I’m just a kid’: Emotional girl’s heartbreaking video amid Gaza Strip rubble

An emotional 10-year-old has shared her distress living in the Gaza Strip, saying she cries every day over the rubble surrounding her.

Little Nadine Abdel-Taif looks around at the rubble behind her.

She’s crying again, just like she does every day. The 10-year-old can’t handle what’s happening to her home any longer.

Nadine is one of many Palestinians who lost their homes to an overnight Israeli raid.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were left in a state of shock and devastation after Israeli air strikes claimed the lives of 11 people, including eight children, in the early hours of Saturday.

A video of an emotional Nadine has now gone viral as she questions why her, her family, and others in Gaza are being targeted and what she could possibly do about it.

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Nadine Abdel-Taif says she wants to be a doctor to help her people. Picture: Middle East Eye

“I’m always sick. I can’t do anything. I’m only 10,” she says.

“What am I supposed to do? Fix it? I’m only 10. I can’t even deal with this anymore.

“I just want to be a doctor or anything to help my people. But I can’t. I’m just a kid.

“I get scared. I’d do anything for my people. But I don’t know what to do.”

Israel said Sunday morning its “continuing wave of strikes” had in the past 24 hours struck over 90 targets across Gaza, where the destruction of a building housing news media organisations sparked international outcry.

In Gaza, emergency teams worked to pull out bodies from vast piles of smoking rubble and toppled buildings, as relatives wailed in horror and grief.

Nadine asked of the violence, “Why do we deserve this? What did we do for this?

“My family said they just hate us. They just don’t like us because we are Muslims. It’s not fair.”

One of Nadine’s teachers commented when she saw the video.

“This is my beautiful student, Nadeen. She was explaining to the press what happened to their neighbours. Thank God, Nadeen & her family are safe & sound. She is still shocked & traumatised, though,” she wrote.

Doctors around the world have started rallying for the little girl, imploring her not to lose hope.

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This is my beautiful student, Nadeen. She was explaining to the press what happened to their neighbors. Thanks God, Nadeen & her family are safe & sound. She is still shocked & traumatized, though.

— Gheed غِيد (@GheedHissy) May 16, 2021

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The civilian death toll has mounted in Gaza, where at least 47 children have been killed, 1200 people wounded and entire buildings and city blocks reduced to rubble.

The Israel Defense Forces says it takes all possible precautions to avoid harming civilians and has blamed Hamas for deliberately placing military targets in densely populated areas.

One strike on Gaza killed 10 members of an extended family.

The children “didn’t carry weapons, they didn’t fire rockets”, said Mohammad al-Hadidi, one of the grieving fathers.

Some 10,000 Gazans have fled their homes near the Israeli border for fear of a ground offensive, the UN said.

“They are sheltering in schools, mosques and other places during a global COVID-19 pandemic with limited access to water, food, hygiene and health services,” UN humanitarian official Lynn Hastings said.

– with AFP