Palestinian karate champion killed after succumbing to wounds in Israeli strike
A Palestinian karate champion died on 14 January almost a month after she was critically wounded in an Israeli missile strike.
Nagham Abu Samrah, a widely celebrated sports player, had her leg amputated after an Israeli missile hit her home in the Nuseirat refugee camp on 17 December.
The attack on her home killed her sister, and left her in a serious condition. The 24-year-old was left in a coma before she died in the al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza’s Deir al-Balah on Sunday.
Abu Samrah was set to be evacuated to Egypt for specialist treatment, but did not make it in time due to Israeli forces not granting her permission to cross the border.
According to Sky News, her father, Marwan Abu Samrah, said she was his only “glimmer of hope,” following the loss of his other daughter and his mother who died of cancer a week before the war on Gaza started.