内容摘要：The then 25-year-old Spanish volunteer arranged housing for refugees in abandoned facilities like schools and libraries, and set up community kitchens, language classes and art activities.

The then 25-year-old Spanish volunteer arranged housing for refugees in abandoned facilities like schools and libraries, and set up community kitchens, language classes and art activities.

in Gaza City, has shocked people around the world, highlighting the ferocity of Israel’s attacks on Gaza.Ward’s father and a brother also survived the attack, but they both remain in hospital.

The school had been sheltering several families, including many children, when it was targeted by Israeli fire.“I walked in the fire so I could escape. … I was in the fire, and the ceiling fell on me. The ceiling all collapsed. The fire was blazing,” Ward recounted, the distress clear in her voice. “See? My arm is burned here,” she said, showing the camera the injuries.Ward sobbed as she explained what happened to her family: “They were martyred. May God forgive them.”

Footage taken from the school after the attack shows blood-stained walls and charred mattresses lying on the floor as rescue workers and distraught relatives search the rubble and burned clothing for signs of survivors.Eyad al-Sheikh Khalil, Ward’s uncle, rushed to the school after seeing a picture of her online.

“I was looking at the pictures journalists were posting, and I saw a photo of Ward with the Civil Defence and realised it was my niece,” he said of the images of Ward being comforted by rescue workers near the school, the bright bows in her hair dulled by the ash from the fire.

“When someone comes out of an attack like this, in a war like this, what do you expect a kid to feel?” Eyad asked. “Of course she’s going to suffer mentally. We’re all suffering mentally.”CNE also said that 23 out of 24 state governor positions were won by the government flagging a setback for the opposition, which previously controlled four states.

Turnout in the elections was 8.9 million or roughly 42 percent of 21 million voters eligible to cast their ballots. CNE chief Carlos Quintero noted that was the same figure as in the 2021 elections.However, the country’s main opposition leaders had urged voters to boycott the election in protest over

July’s 2024 presidential election. The opposition insists that it won that race but authorities declared Maduro the winner.