Minutes after Najat al-Loh learnt that the 7cm lump in her right breast was cancer, her oldest son Atta died from wounds sustained in an Israeli bombardment. “As I stood there talking to the doctor, I received the news,” she said. “I collapsed entirely, not just emotionally but physically. My daughter was screaming.” Nine months on, the 48-year-old now has five more lumps across her chest and under her arms, some the size of tennis balls. Her face is riven with exhaustion and despair as she