‘I woke up and there was no water’: Gaza’s human rights defenders in their own words | Mary Lawlor

A UN special rapporteur shares the stories of those trying to record the horrors of Gaza even as they live through them

Yesterday I talked to a mother of a child who was born and died in the war."

Every day I look at my child, who instead of going to school is going to fetch water, and instead of playing football is hanging around in areas where corpses are lying."

Mary Lawlor is UN special rapporteur on human rights defenders