Posted on 10/28/2024 5:55:21 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
“I carried her because she couldn’t walk.”
Still barefoot but no longer wearily hauling her younger sister over her shoulders, 6-year-old Qamar Subuh has a straightforward explanation for an act that many felt underscored the impact felt by Palestinian children amid Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip.
Video of Qamar carrying her injured sister to a hospital and back in central Gaza was shared widely across social media recently. An NBC News team spoke to the sisters and their family Saturday.
Qamar said she and Sumaya Subuh, 5, were on their way to sell boxes of biscuits near the Al Bureij refugee camp when Sumaya was struck by a car.
With Sumaya in need of treatment and unable to walk, Qamar slung her younger sister over her shoulders and carried her to the hospital.
Qamar's mother, 33, said the family comes from the northern city of Beit Lahia, where Israeli airstrikes have killed dozens in recent weeks. She said they moved from the north due to hunger, and have since been displaced four times.
"My husband is lost in the north," she said. "When he took us to the checkpoint, we lost contact. When he brought us to the border here, he said goodbye to the children and said, 'May God be with you.'"
Hanan said that she lives in fear of Israeli airstrikes that keep her awake at night, and that her children often go without meals and some days without any food at all.
But she expressed pride in her daughter, "who took her sister, who carried her, healed her and brought her back," she said.
"It’s not within her strength to carry her," she added. "But she had to.
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"the impact felt by Palestinian children amid Israel’s assault counterattack on the Gaza Strip" to annihilate hamass, which started the war and refuses to end it.
You’re telling a 6 year old to STFU or live with the consequences?
Wow, you’re tougher than I thought :)
I know what they are trying to do....tug at heart strings in a war where Israel is NOT the agressor but fighting for their survival.
But you could make the distinction about who should stop all of this.
Lots of tough guys on our side who hid behind their doors while POS tore down their/our beloved statues.
Then call out 6 year old :)
Ironic huh?
Israel has to do WHATEVER it needs to do or their children will be slaughtered.
That doesn’t mean we can’t feel what Jesus would have felt for little kids getting maimed and mangled and killed.
Even though we know they have left Israel no choice, just like Germany and Japan left us none.
have a good one
Hamas would have rated them and beheaded them afterwards.
Hamas is 100% responsible for this 6-year old and every Arab suffering in the Mideast today. Period.
I wonder if it was staged.
“We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...”
Golda Meir
The thought came to my mind and many others. They’ve done it many times in the distant past and in the recent past.
It did have that look
“When he took us to the checkpoint, we lost contact. When he brought us to the border here, he said goodbye to the children and said, ‘May God be with you.’”
Why did he ditch his family at the checkpoint? Was it an Israeli checkpoint? If it was, that tells me the guy was a Hamas terrorist and knew IDF would arrest him. Whatever the reason he ditched them, this is all on the father.
“I wonder if it was staged”
There was a film crew accompanying her…
I’m guessing a fully staged story. Gaza should be completely leveled and turned into a massive beach resort for Israel.
I don’t care about these sad Pali stories. I just can’t care anymore. Tell them to stop killing Jews and then, maybe I can take the time to GAF.
Agree on both counts. My GAF is broken when it comes to Palis and their BS stories.
Definitely staged.
Your kindness gets people killed.
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