They thought it was safe to walk home. Instead, she was the last child killed before Gaza's truce.

As Ahmed al-Qudra set off to see what — if anything — remained of his family’s home in the village of al-Qarara, he believed the long-awaited ceasefire in Gaza had begun.

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They thought it was safe to walk home. Instead, she was the last child killed before Gaza's truce.

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