An Israeli attack on her shelter caused the amputation of both of Nibal’s hands, forcing her to lose the thing she held most dear: the ability to hold her young daughter. Her story is one of hundreds of amputee women in Gaza.

I am a disabled, anti-Zionist Jew, and I believe we will see a free Palestine. But I also believe this: anyone claiming to do the work of disability rights or justice while remaining silent on Gaza is actually doing no such thing.

“We talked, me and the soldiers. I told them: ‘I work at the center for people with special needs. Eyad is my patient.’ And Eyad was alive, on the ground, and kept saying, ‘I’m with her.’ And then they shot him again, after five minutes, right in front of me.”

Palestinian cyclist Alaa al-Dali, who was maimed by an Israeli sniper in the Gaza protests last year, has vowed to continue his competitive career as a para-cyclist, Al Jazeera reports. Israeli onslaughts in the last ten years have produced 130,000 disabled people in the Gaza Strip.