”She wanted to hold her child and fill our home with his presence,” Ola’s father Adnan Al-Kurd said. Tragically, Ola never experienced that precious moment. On July 19, an Israeli airstrike hit the family home in Al-Nuseirat, central Gaza, according to her father Adnan Al-Kurd. The explosion threw Ola several floors down, causing her death in the house that sheltered women, children, and the elderly.
