Razan recalls being inside her home when the bombing began. “I was playing with my friends, then felt tired and went to sleep,” she said. Moments later, she awoke to the sound of explosions. As she tried to understand what was happening, shrapnel struck her eye. The pain was overwhelming, leaving her unable to focus, while the fragment remained lodged in her eye amid the chaos.

Her family walked to eye clinics under constant threat. She stayed in hospital for five days, undergoing surgery with nearly 20 stitches, but ultimately lost vision in that eye. Razan admits she still trembles at the sound of shelling, haunted by trauma and fearful of losing her other eye.

“The whole world lives in safety and peace, but we children of Gaza live in danger,” she said. Razan has stopped going outside, worried about bullying. She often cries at night, remembering the bleeding from her eye. “Why do all the girls and children have eyes, and I don’t? I want to look beautiful like them.”

She once loved photography but now feels ashamed of her appearance, wishing her eye could return to normal. Her greatest dream is to travel abroad for treatment and regain her life. Doctors warn that shrapnel remains in her eye, raising risks to her other eye or even her brain, while Gaza’s hospitals lack specialists and equipment.

Razan concludes with a single wish: to travel for treatment, restore her sight, and reclaim her childhood.