Gaza toddlers got the polio vaccine, then an Israeli bomb took their legs
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An Israeli bomb killed three-year-old Hanan and 22-month-old Misk’s mother and made them amputees.
Deir el-Balah, Gaza – Three-year-old Hanan al-Daqqi spends her days with her younger sister Misk, occasionally asking questions.
“Where’s Mama?”
“Where did my legs go?”
The two toddlers have been in the hospital for four months since they were brought there, battered and bleeding from an Israeli bombing, and had their legs amputated.
Their father’s sister, Shefa al-Daqqi, 28, has been by their side since then, but she still does not know how to answer the girls’ questions.
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