Two little brown heads, almost identical, one against the other, a tender smile crinkling their large black eyes. They are the twins Rawan and Razan Barbakh when they were children. Rawan chose this photo as his profile picture on Facebook. In reality, the teenager’s entire page is nothing more than a wall in memory of her sister, who died in November 2024, at the age of 14. Razan, with a more discreet smile in the photo, suffered from leukemia, like her still living twin. In the Gaza Strip wiped out by the Israeli offensive, the doctors at the Nasser hospital, an establishment in the south of the enclave, were unable to do anything.
“We suffered so much during the war. Both had to receive regular blood transfusions, we had to find donors ourselves, because the hospitals had no reserves”testifies Arafat Barbakh, their father, on the telephone, Israel still prohibiting access to the Gaza Strip to the international press. Originally from Rafah, he currently lives in Al-Mawassi, on the southern coast, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people’s tents are located.
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