In the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, a small child, Maryam Abu Alba, is crying with pain. “The neighbor’s house was bombed and their house was hit,” says her grandmother.
“One of her legs had to be amputated and metal plates had to be inserted into the other, which was broken. She has severe pain.”
Nowhere to run
In the same hospital, the young Mohammad Hassan looks down on his heavily connected left leg and the stump where his foot used to be. “I was going to buy Falafel,” he says. “On the way home I looked up and saw a rocket going to me. I tried to run, but it was too fast. I noticed that I was attached to the wall and my foot had been blown off. Then someone picked me up and took me to this hospital.”
Gaza now has the highest number of children’s amputes per head of the population from all over the world.
One news
Palestinian child Mohammad Hassan sat on a hospital bed in Gaza after his left leg was amputated by a strike.
Shot looking for food
In May, GHF took over the delivery of help in Gaza, bypassed established routes and drastically brought back the number of distribution points to a handfully reinforced Hubs, a policy that is criticized by the UN and NGO partners.
On Monday, the UN Human Rights Office described Attempts to gain access to these sites as “a fatal chase”. Thousands of Palestinians have been killed or injured since May during the search for food.
When GHF started operations, Ibrahim Abdel Nabi was one of the many Palestinians on their way to the Hubs in the hope of finding desperate facilities for their families.
In his tent at a relocation location in the coastal area of the coast of Khan Younis, Mr Nabi, surrounded by his wife and children, explains how the journey ended in disaster and life -changing injuries.
“We were told that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation had opened its doors to spread the help. When I arrived in the Al-Alam area, west of Rafah, I was hit by an explosive bullet in my leg. I bleed about an hour and a half and nobody came to help me. They all tried to find food for their children.”
Eventually a group of people came to the rescue and took him to the nearby Red Cross Hospital.
“I stayed there for about a month and a half, undergone about 12 operations. I became malnourished and lost a lot of blood. Infection spread, and more of my leg had to be amputated.”
One news
Ibrahim Abdel Nabi, a Palestinian displaced in Gaza, sitting on a chair while his wife helps him to wear the handmade Prothetic limb.
“I made my prosthetic leg”
While Mr Nabi tried to recover, he was aware that his family still needed food. Despite the pain, he decided to make a simple prosthesis of materials that he could find to get him back on his feet and make new attempts to find food and water.
“The prosthesis injures my leg,” he said. “It causes inflammation and increases the pain. We have no medical care or supplies, but I will use it, regardless of how much it hurts.”
As he speaks, Mr.’s wife begins. Nabi to cry. “God prepared, we will go through this experience,” she says.
Mr. Nabi stands on crutches and goes to a nearby tent, where his wife helps him to attract the raw prosthesis.
“Don’t sieve yourself,” she repeats again and again. “Take your time. Walk slowly.”
#Gazans #confronted #future #pain #prostheses