A Palestinian woman hugs her son’s body, asking him to forgive her for any shortcomings

In the wake of Israeli air strikes, a Gazan mother holds the lifeless body of her baby boy, asking him to forgive her if she failed him. Her mother comforts her off-camera, telling her she did her best and did not fail him. The grieving woman tells her mother she had to take 580 injections to have him.

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