A drone strike landed close by as Hala Abu Assi brewed tea outside her tent, using the last of the family’s firewood.
Moments earlier, her two sons, Jumaa, 10, and Fadi, nine, had set off to gather more. Firewood was all the displaced Palestinian family had to fend off the cold.
The boys walked towards the so-called “Yellow Line”, a demarcation line established under the ceasefire in October that splits Gaza into east and west.
Anyone approaching the area is routinely met with lethal fire from Israeli forces, regardless of the reason.
So when a drone strike hit on 29 November, Abu Assi felt something was wrong.
