Correspondent in Jerusalem
He is an infant carried at arm's length by a paramedic. He is dressed in pajamas but does not sleep: his skin has the waxy complexion of fresh corpses, a bloody sheet surrounds his hair. A little further on, a little girl, who may be 4 years old, is crying as she wrings her hands. His right eye is poached, he's bleeding. Her older sister, sitting next to her, doesn't know what to do to comfort her.
They have just lost their parents in a bombing but still don't know it. Their uncle is with them "but he too is seriously traumatised", notes the Figaro contributor from the courtyard of the Nasser hospital in Khan Younes, where he filmed the short videos on Thursday. Finally, she is a grieving mother who comes to pay a last visit to her dead son. Two men support her, she cries out in pain, but the Palestinians who have taken refuge in the courtyard of the hospital barely turn around as she passes: the scene seems to have become commonplace.
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