At first, health workers thought Majd Alshaghnobi had been killed.
He was waiting to collect flour, like so many children in northern Gaza, when Israeli shrapnel tore through his face at the Kuwait Roundabout in February 2024, inflicting a blast injury on his jaw and lower mouth.
“Someone had dragged me and took me to safety,” the 15-year-old boy told CNN on Monday. “I was put in the morgue refrigerator, because they thought I was dead. But then I moved my hand and alerted them to the fact that I was alive.”
Palestinian doctors whisked him away before sewing up his wounds in a kitchen because there were not enough operating rooms at Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, Gaza City – in a fraught scene of impossible triage and medical improvisation replicated across the strip. Eventually, Majd trekked alone through razed neighborhoods and military checkpoints, before reuniting with his mother in the southern city of Khan Younis.
“It was difficult,” Majd recalled. “I was very scared because the Israelis were there.”
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