Falestine, a young lioness kept in captivity at the Rafah Zoo in the southern Gaza strip, never got the chance to be a normal tiger cub. In an attempt to make her more child-friendly, Falestine was declawed by her captors in January 2019 when she was just 14 months old.
After having her claws brutally ripped off with a pair of shears and her wounds sewed up, Falestine was given the job—to play with visitors, especially children—so as to generate revenue for the zoo.
