After losing her father in an Israeli airstrike, enduring repeated displacement and studying through power cuts and bombardment, an 18-year-old student from Gaza has topped the Palestinian national secondary school examinations, achieving the highest score in the science stream despite nearly two years of war.
Just days before her final secondary school examinations, the house opposite the temporary home where 18-year-old Saba Rabah was staying in central Gaza was bombed.
She and her family fled, leaving behind everything they owned.
Palestinian high school student Saba Rabah (C), the top-ranked student in the science stream of the Palestinian national high school exams, celebrates with family at the Maghazi camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip, July 26, 2026. (AFP Photo)
It was the latest ordeal in a war that had already claimed her father's life, destroyed the family home and forced them to flee repeatedly.
