Gaza Metropolis – Najwa Abu Aisha, 48, is mendacity in a hospital mattress, surrounded by household. She has been there since Could 11 when Israel bombed empty farmland close to her Gaza house, sending her hurtling from the second-floor rooftop of her home.

She was left paralysed by the autumn.

“I had gone up on the roof with my 14-year-old son to test the water tank,” Najwa instructed Al Jazeera.

“All of a sudden, whereas I used to be leaning towards the wall, an Israeli bomb hit close to our house. All I keep in mind is the wall falling and falling off the roof with it. After I wakened, I used to be right here within the hospital,” she stated.

Her son, who witnessed the bombing and her fall, continues to be affected by trauma and isn’t in a position to sit with or discuss to anybody.

“We have been simply at house,” Ramzi Abu Aisha, 28, Najwa’s eldest son, instructed Al Jazeera. “All of a sudden, we heard an enormous bomb subsequent to us, after which we heard the neighbours scream {that a} girl had been injured.

“We by no means thought my mom was the one injured. She had gone as much as the roof just some moments earlier than.”

Najwa was flung from the roof and landed on her again within the next-door neighbours’ yard. Apart from accidents to her spinal twine, she additionally suffered extreme fractures in her pelvis and rib cage, in accordance with docs at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza Metropolis.

About 33 Palestinians, together with youngsters, have been killed and 147 wounded within the besieged enclave within the newest escalation between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organisation. The combating ended solely after a truce after 4 days of combating. One Israeli was additionally killed.

When the household talks about Najwa’s situation, they whisper so she doesn’t hear them as a result of they don’t wish to trigger her misery.

Her youngsters additionally attempt to act usually in entrance of Najwa, however she instructed Al Jazeera tearfully that she may be very conscious of her situation as a result of she can not really feel or transfer the decrease a part of her physique.

“I’m not complaining about what occurred to me, however I’m in lots of ache,” she stated, explaining that as a Muslim girl, she is content material together with her destiny.

However, she stated, “Nobody feels the extent of the psychological and bodily ache inside me.”

“An Israeli missile was sufficient to alter my life from an lively, upright girl to a disabled, helpless girl,” she added, bursting into tears.

Najwa has 5 youngsters. The youngest is seven years previous. She was the household’s sole breadwinner as a result of her husband lives with a incapacity and depends on a cane to maneuver round.

Earlier than her damage, she had a cleansing job in a kindergarten for almost three years.

Standing subsequent to Najwa’s mattress is her sister Um Issa, 47. She by no means leaves Najwa’s aspect after the “nice shock” of her damage.

“We used to eat collectively, drink collectively and exit collectively,” she stated. “The information got here like a thunderbolt to all of us. This was unimaginable.”

“My sister Najwa used to maneuver like a bee amongst us. She was working exhausting to help her household of their troublesome dwelling circumstances, however regardless, she beloved caring for herself and beloved garments and looking out good.”

Um Issa seemed away for a second. “I can’t cease excited about her youngsters.”

Her husband, Mazen Abu Aisha, 50, involves the hospital to see her usually, leaning on his cane with tears working down his face.

“I really feel like I’m in a nightmare. My coronary heart hurts a lot for her. She put up an excessive amount of with me, bore the burdens of my household and youngsters, and by no means complained. I really feel so helpless,” he stated.

“What sin did we commit in Gaza for all this to occur to us?”

The Gaza Strip has successfully been below an Israeli siege for greater than 15 years, and its well being sector has deteriorated on account of limitations on imports and freedom of motion. Which means there may be not a lot that may be achieved for Najwa right here.

She and her household hope she will likely be allowed journey to obtain medical therapy overseas, however Israel severely limits the liberty of motion of all Palestinians.

“The docs instructed me they couldn’t do something for me right here,” Najwa stated. “All I hope for now’s getting therapy overseas to rehabilitate my physique, so I can stroll and return to serving my youngsters and my household.”