She saw her husband and daughter off to Egypt. An Israeli sniper killed her on the way home

Noura Sheikh al-Eid bid farewell to her husband and daughter as they left Gaza for medical treatment in Egypt.

It was meant to be a temporary goodbye.

But as the 54-year-old Palestinian mother returned from the departure station to her displacement tent on 5 November, an Israeli sniper shot and killed her.

“We are in shock,” Mohammed Sheikh al-Eid, Noura’s brother, told Middle East Eye.

“I lost my 14-year-old son during the famine, while he was trying to get aid. I swear to God, I did not grieve for him the way I have grieved for my sister,” he said.