Gaza woman searches for shoes of her martyred daughter to identify her remains

A distressed Palestinian woman frantically searched for her daughter’s shoes to identify her remains following an Israeli airstrike on her home in Gaza.

“My daughter, Hanin, is 26 years old and she is thin,” the woman told rescue workers who were recovering bodies from the rubble after the attack.

“But there is only flesh here,” one rescue worker responded, asking, “Do you know the color of her shoes?” The woman said she could not remember.

The workers then showed her with the body of a deceased individual to see if it was her daughter.

“She had a grey purse,” the distraught woman recalled.

One of the men uncovered a body, indicating that the deceased was wearing grey pants.

“No, that’s not Hanin,” the woman said when shown a body with white shoes.

Journalist Hossam Shabat  shared the heartbreaking video on his social media accounts, stating, “The mother searches among the shoes for her daughter, hoping to find a trace of her remains after the occupation destroyed their home.”

In a recent attack, the Israeli army killed over 93 Palestinians by demolishing a five-story residential building that was sheltering displaced civilians in Beit Lahiya.

Al Jazeera reported that several wounded victims arrived at Kamal Adwan Hospital, which had ceased functioning due to the Israeli siege, and there were no medical staff available to provide treatment.

Videos and pictures of horrific violence cotinue to surface on social media from Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun, amid a communications blackout in the northern regions of Gaza due to relentless Israeli military offensive.

The overall Palestinian death toll since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza has reached at least 43,686 with more than 100,833 wounded. Thousands more remain trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings.