‘I miss them every day’: the boy who lost his whole family to an Israeli airstrike

Omar Abu al-Ouf's father, mother, brother and sister were all killed in the attack on their apartment building last May

Omar Abu al-Ouf is revising for his final school exams, hoping to do well enough to pursue his dream of becoming an engineer, but it's difficult for the 17-year-old to focus. His mind constantly drifts to his family, all of whom died last year when an Israeli airstrike destroyed their apartment building in a middle-class neighbourhood of Gaza city.

It's like he goes somewhere else," said his grandmother, Manar, in the living room of the boy's uncle's house, where he now lives. His whole family is gone, for nothing."