Gaza: 12 Year-old Alma Shocks She Lost Her Whole Family · Global Voices

A small one’s testimony shocks Palestinian who at the age of 12 lived the horror of war in and saw her entire family perish. “I am Alma. Don’t help me first. Help my mom and dad. And please help my brother Tarzan. He is only an 18-month-old baby”, are the words of the 12-year-old Alma Jarur from Gaza on 2 December 2023. Rescuers had just located her buried under the wreckage of a 5-story apartment building that had collapsed after a bombing in Gaza City. There she was buried for over three hours. “We were happy together as a family,” Alma says. We hugged each other when we were scared. I wish I could keep them all. I didn’t have enough time with them,” says Alma who is now hosted at her uncle’s scene in Rafa. Alma was asking to rescue her family first, showing the garages she is located. “I remember waking up under the ruins. I checked my iPad and saw it was 9:00. I was hoping my brother Tarzan would still be alive. I called him and hoped that one of my people would be alive. I could smell the blood. It was dripping on me. I was screaming for someone to save us. I could hear others screaming,” he describes in . But after Alma was saved, she saw Tarazan’s body. “I wish death after seeing my brother like this, She was only 18 months old. What has he done in this war?” he says. Tarazan wasn’t her only loss. Her entire family had been killed, her parents and three other brothers. Alma’s parents had already moved three times to avoid bombing and keep their children safe. In their last shelter the building where they slept collapsed from bombing.