Ward Al-Sheikh Khalil: Fire Child 2

"WHEN I WOKE UP, I FOUND A HUGE FIRE, AND I SAW MY MOM WAS DEAD.
I WALKED IN THE FIRE SO I COULD ESCAPE ALONE."

Five-year-old Ward Al-Sheikh Khalil escaped an inferno to survive an Israeli airstrike that hit the school where she and her family were sheltering, which killed her mother and 5 of her siblings on May 25, 2025.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/program/newsfeed/2025/5/27/girl-tells-al-jazeera-how-she-escaped-school-inferno

A young girl with dirty clothes and a sad expression sits on the ground inside a damaged building, holding a small object. The scene suggests she is mourning or grieving, with debris and a broken flip flop nearby. There is a black box of text that reads: "When she returned to the scene of the attack, she found her sister's abandoned flip flop and broke down sobbing."
A postcard featuring a quote about a child escaping a fire, a photo of a fire with flames and smoke, and text about a five-year-old girl named Ward Al-Sheikh Khalil who survived an Israeli airstrike.

Solidarity is a physical practice.

“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she is a threat.”

— James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work