"The eight-year-old boy's question seemed simple enough but was all the more tragically poignant for that. "Why don't you have the lights on?" Mohammed Badran asked on waking up from reconstructive surgery carried out after an Israeli artillery shell struck the house where he slept and blew away most of his face." "In fact, Mohammed's life will be forever in darkness. He lost one eye and was totally blinded in the other in the July 30 strike on his home in the southern Gaza town of Nuseirat that also seriously wounded his 10-year-old sister, Hanan, and his brother, Ebrahim, aged 12."