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"...Gazal was wounded on November 10th, when, as her
family fled Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, shrapnel pierced her left
calf. To stop the bleeding, a doctor, who had no access to antiseptic or
anesthesia, heated the blade of a kitchen knife and cauterized the
wound. Within days, the gash ran with pus and began to smell. By
mid-December, when Gazal’s family arrived at Nasser Medical Center—then
Gaza’s largest functioning health-care facility—gangrene had set in,
necessitating amputation at the hip. On December 17th, a projectile hit
the children’s ward of Nasser. Gazal and her mother watched it enter
their room, decapitating Gazal’s twelve-year-old roommate and causing
the ceiling to collapse. (Multiple news reports have described the event
as an Israeli attack. The I.D.F. claimed the incident could have been
caused by a Hamas mortar or the remnant of an Israeli flare.) Gazal and
her mother managed to crawl out of the rubble. The next day, their names
were added to the list of evacuees who could cross the border into
Egypt and then fly to Qatar for medical treatment. Gazal’s mother was
nine months pregnant; she gave birth to a baby girl while awaiting the
airlift to Doha.UNICEF
estimates that a thousand children in Gaza have become amputees since
the conflict began in October. “This is the biggest cohort of pediatric
amputees in history,” Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a London-based
plastic-and-reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma,..."By Eliza Griswold
Just off the acacia-lined highway to the Qatari capital of Doha is a
three-story, whitewashed apartment complex built to host visitors at the
2022 FIFA World Cup. Until recently, the gated
compound was unoccupied. Yet in the past several months, as part of a
deal Qatar struck with Israel, Hamas, and Egypt to evacuate as many as
fifteen hundred wounded Gazans in urgent need of medical care, it has
begun to fill. The new residents are eight hundred and fifteen medical
evacuees from the ongoing war, along with five hundred and forty-two of
their relatives. Most are women and children. ... READ MORE... https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-children-who-lost-limbs-in-gaza
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