Two small brown heads, almost identical, faced each other, gentle smiles adorning their large black eyes. They were the twins Rawan and Razan Barbakh when they were little. Rawan chose this photo as her profile photo on Facebook. In reality, the teenager’s entire yard is nothing more than a wall in memory of his sister, who died in November 2024, at the age of 14. Razan, with a more hidden smile in the photo, suffers from leukemia, like his surviving twin. In the Gaza Strip devastated by Israeli attacks, doctors at Nasser hospital, located in the south of the enclave, could do nothing for him.
“We suffered a lot during the war. Both of us had to have regular blood transfusions, we had to look for donors ourselves, because the hospital had no reserves.”testimony of Arafat Barbakh, their father, by telephone, Israel still prohibits access to the Gaza Strip for the international press. Originally from Rafah, he currently lives in Al-Mawassi, on the southern coast, where hundreds of thousands of refugee camps are located.
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