“My leg is full of blood,” says teary-eyed Palestinian girl fleeing north Gaza amid Israeli attacks

A teary-eyed Palestinian girl, who was forced to flee north Gaza on foot, shared her plight of living in the enclave during an intensified Israeli military offensive.

Journalist Hossam Shabat interviewed the distressed little girl who was exhausted from walking to find shelter away from north Gaza.

“My leg hurts so I can’t walk. My leg is full of blood. It bleeds every day,” the girl while breaking into tears.

"My leg is full of blood. It bleeds everyday."

A Palestinian girl cried in pain while speaking to a journalist after being forced to walk miles from northern Gaza due to Israel’s ongoing siege. pic.twitter.com/JwHrBZe7HD

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) October 24, 2024

Palestinian reporter Motasem Dalloul shared an account of a mother who explained how Israeli tanks surrounded and tortured children in front of their mothers in Jabalia.

He mentioned that the occupation army forcibly separated children from their mothers, dug a large hole and placed children inside and encircled them with tanks.

The torture and cries of children “cracked their bones,” then the Israeli soldiers started throwing the children towards the mothers, and whoever caught a child was ordered to carry him.”

“Many mothers carried children who were not their own, and were forced to leave with them, leaving their own children in the hands of other mothers,” his post read. 

A mother from #Jabalia says:

“They took all the children from their mothers and put them inside what resembled a pit or a hole. The tank came to circle around them repeatedly until their bones cracked under the pressure of dust and sand, amidst the screams of children and the…

— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) October 23, 2024

Videos emerging from north Gaza show hospitals overwhelmed with wounded patients and dead Palesitnians and many civilian men taken as hostages while women and children are left in a state of desolation. 

Residents in northern Gaza have been forced to starve for over 20 days, with essential supplies completely depleted. The southern and central parts of Gaza are also enduring a brutal military offensive by the IDF.

According to Hamas, Israel has killed at least 700 civilians in the north over the past 18 days, since October 5, 2024.