It was December 2023, not long after the war broke out. Tatiana al-Mabhuh, a 54-year-old Ukrainian-born woman, was in the house her family had just evacuated to in the Jabalya Refugee Camp. She was getting ready to tuck in her 1-year-old step grandson, Mahmoud, when she heard a strange sound.

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