The chosen of God coward soldiers want to kill this little baby girl
Devils Within and Without
What happened to the young girl captured in a photograph of Gaza detainees
According to Unicef - the United Nations children’s agency -14,000 children have been reportedly killed in the war.
“Day after day children are paying the price for a war they did not start,” said Unicef spokesman, Jonathan Crickx.
“Most of the children I have met have lost a loved one in often terrible circumstances.”
The UN estimates that nearly all children in the Gaza Strip - nearly one million - need mental health support.
In a group of Gazan men, detained by Israeli forces, a little girl can be seen (circled). The BBC has chosen to obscure the faces of those most identifiable
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It's hard to see her in the crowd of men. She is the tiny figure towards the back.
The soldiers have ordered the men to strip to their underwear. Even some of the elderly ones. They gaze up at whoever is taking the photograph. It is almost certainly an Israeli soldier.
The image appears to have first been published on the Telegram account of a journalist with strong sources in the Israel Defence Forces.
The men look abject, fearful and exhausted. The little girl, who was noticed in the picture by a BBC producer, is looking away. Maybe something out of sight of the camera has caught her attention. Or maybe she just doesn’t want to look at the soldiers and their guns.
The military have told the people to stop here. Bomb-blasted buildings stretch off into the distance behind them. They are checking the men, for weapons, documents, any sign they might be linked to Hamas.
So often the suffering of this war is found in the detail of individual lives. The child’s presence, her expression as she looks away, is a detail that poses so many questions.
Foremost, who was she? What happened to her? The photo was taken a week ago.
A week of hundreds killed, many wounded, and thousands uprooted from their homes. Children died under the rubble of air strikes or because there wasn’t the medicine or medical staff to treat them.
Working with BBC Arabic Gaza Today programme we began searching for the child. Israel does not allow the BBC or other international media access to Gaza to report independently, so the BBC depends on a trusted network of freelance journalists. Our colleagues approached their contacts with aid agencies in the north, showing the photograph in places where the displaced had fled.
Within 48 hours word came back. The message on the phone read: “We have found her!”
Julia Abu Warda, aged three, was alive. When our journalist reached the family in Gaza City - where many from Jabalia have fled - Julia was with her father, grandfather and mother.
She was watching a cartoon of animated chickens singing, difficult to hear because of the ominous whine of an Israeli drone overhead.
Julia was surprised to suddenly be the focus of a stranger’s attention.
"Who are you?" her father asked, playfully.
"Jooliaa" she replied, stretching the word for emphasis.
