Najah Dader, 45 yrs old, is seen in Gaza city, Gaza, Palestine, 2012.
During an intense shelling in the area where Najah lives with her family, on January 8th 2009, they decided to leave. Najah took 2
of her sons with her and left the house. After a while she decided to come back, because she thought that she had left a child behind, but when she came back home she didn't find anyone there. So she went out again and she was hit while she was on the street. Najah suffered facial injuries as the laceration of the lower lip and she has had many plastic surgeries to connect the deformities. In the Shifa hospital they also had to cut her right hand. Then she was transferred to a hospital in Riyadh in Saudi
Arabia, where she stayed for 3 month and underwent 7 operations. She had 3 more operations in Gaza, when she came back. The family tried to take her to Egypt for more operations she would need to have, but they couldn't, because of the lack of resources.
She was a seamstress, but now she is disabled and can't work anymore, so the family income has completely dropped.