He was in his mother's arms when she was killed in an air strike in October 2023, along with his siblings. In hospital in Gaza, a nurse trying to cheer him up told him his mother had turned into a star.
"Since then, he looks up into the sky at night, looking for stars and talking to them," his aunt Sabah says. "He doesn't talk to other people. But I hear him saying to the stars: 'Mummy I've eaten, Mummy I'm going to sleep now.'
Thank goodness for the hospital in Jordan and the doctors and nurses there, but this about that little boy is just so sad I could not read on.