Four-year-old Mira Ahmad lies unresponsive, her small body shattered by shrapnel, her innocence caught between the ruins of war and the collapse of Gaza’s health system. Her mother, Rana Al-Sleibi, is making a desperate plea to the world: help save my daughter before it’s too late.

Mira was wounded when an Israeli airstrike hit a house near the family’s home. The blast fractured her skull, caused severe brain trauma, and left her in a coma. She was briefly admitted to intensive care, but with hospitals overwhelmed and critically under-resourced, she was discharged too soon. Now she suffers from repeated seizures, partial paralysis, and multiple untreated fractures.

“There is no pain relief for children,” Rana said. “There are no essential medications. My daughter urgently needs surgery, she needs to be transferred out of Gaza.”

While Rana speaks of Mira’s worsening condition, she also lives in fear of further strikes on the hospital itself. Her other children are paralysed by fear, traumatised by the sounds and sights of war.

Mira’s story is one of countless others in Gaza, where childhood has become a battlefield and medical care a distant dream. In the face of unbearable pain, her family’s only hope now rests in the hands of the international community.