Gaza boy who survived Israeli missile strike returns home
Thaer Jouda, photographed in June 2015, survived an Israeli missile strike that killed his mother and four siblings.
Thaer Jouda, photographed in June 2015, survived an Israeli missile strike that killed his mother and four siblings.
When 8-year-old Thaer Jouda left Gaza for urgently needed medical care in Germany last October, he did not know that his mother and four of his brothers and sisters were dead.
In the late afternoon of 24 August 2014, Thaer was with most of his family in their courtyard in Jabaliya, a town in northern Gaza, when a drone fired a missile directly at the seated group. It was just two days before the ceasefire that ended Israel’s 51-day assault on Gaza.
