This Palestinian girl went from wearing a sparkly tiara to bandages. Even in her hospital bed, she may not be safe

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Three-year-old Joudi hasn’t uttered a word in 16days, her father says. Wearing a gray dress adorned with a picture of an ice cream cone, she stares ahead, a vacant look in her eyes, while sitting in bed at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

Her forehead is wrapped in bandages, a piece of shrapnel still lodged in her head.

She was injured when her family was fleeing their home in Al Karama Towers in northernGaza City. They were

...camera.That smile is now just a memory,hertiara replaced by bandages. Still in shock, Joudi is refusing to eat or drink, her father told CNN. She barely moves, sitting still and looking into the distance. Doctors told the family Joudi is paralized. They couldn’t take the shrapnel out of her skull.