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Torn to pieces as they lay helpless: disabled patients among Gaza victims

For Israel, bombardment is about punishing Hamas, but try telling that to carers for pair killed when rocket destroyed home for disabled

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Nanny Salwa Abu Qumsan at a hospital in Gaza. Photo: Xinhua
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Twenty-year-old Palestinian Sally Saqr lies in a hospital bed in Gaza's Shifa hospital with burns that have turned her cheeks an angry pink beneath her ventilation tube.

She survived an Israeli strike in the early hours of Saturday that hit a care home for Palestinians with special needs.

Two of her fellow residents were not so lucky.

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Thirty-year-old Ola Washahi and 47-year-old Suha Abu Saada were killed when the rocket slammed into the home, destroying it.

The two women's body parts were still being pulled from the rubble hours later, causing initial confusion over whether another person had been killed.

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The facility's director, Jamila Alaywa, is unable to contain her fury as she describes the tragedy that has befallen the centre she set up in 1994.

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