In a small room beside an open window, 15-month-old Zaid Nofal slept without a blanket, unable to escape Gaza's sweltering summer heat.
At 3am, an Israeli air strike hit his family's home in al-Bureij refugee camp, burying his small body beneath the rubble.
A few metres away, his 38-year-old Palestinian mother, Fatima Nofal, stood in shock.
Covered in blood and dust as neighbours screamed around her, she faced a tragedy she had endured before: Zaid was the fourth son she had lost to Israeli attacks after three of his brothers were killed in 2023.
Neighbours rushed to the family's home, which had already been partially destroyed, before it was rebuilt following the October 2025 ceasefire announcement.
