"It was midnight when the missile fell on us. My father, my mother and my brother died. My mother was five months pregnant," Ali Ismaeel Abbas, 12
A missile obliterated his home and most of his family, leaving him orphaned, badly burned and blowing off both his arms.
"We didn't want war. I was scared of this war," said Abbas. "Our house was just a poor shack, why did they want to bomb us?" said the young boy, unaware that the area in which he lived was surrounded by military installations.
"I wanted to become an army officer when I grow up, but not anymore. Now I want to become a doctor, but how can I? I don't have hands," he said.
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