MSF Photo Blog

Erez, Gaza Strip – November 2009
Mouna (19 years old), walks down the covered walkway towards Erez terminal before heading to France to be treated. Mouna’s left leg was severed from her body after a shell burst into a UN school classroom she was seeking shelter in during the January war. After several days in hospital she realized what had happened to her and wished she was dead. For many months afterwards she would not leave her home due her fears of the way people would look at her and treat her.