Far from violence, Gaza wounded find care at Cairo hospital

CAIRO: Ilham Majid was praying when bombs fell on her Gaza house, and her husband only found her hours later under the rubble, alive but seriously wounded.

She was one of the luckier ones — 17 other family members, including two of her children, were killed in that fateful Oct 31 strike by Israeli forces in the Jabalia refugee camp of northern Gaza.

Now, like several other Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, Majid is receiving medical treatment in Egypt.

“All of a sudden I felt the house crumbling.