4-year-old Ahmed loses his parents and both legs after two Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip
- November 18, 2023
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He the child asks all the time about his parents and wants to get up and take a walk. Their the parents are dead and the legs are
He the child asks all the time about his parents and wants to get up and take a walk.
Their the parents are dead and the legs are amputated.
That’s the difficult situation Ahmed ShabbatA four year old boy whose parents were killed when their home in the town of Beit Hanoun, on the northeastern edge of the Gaza Strip, came under fire Israeli airstrike.
“The child asks questions every day. Where is my father? Where is my mother? Every day. But we are trying with all our might to make him forget and adapt to the situation in which he is,” said Ahmed’s uncle Ibrahim Abu Amsha, who became his guardian.
Abu Amsha said that strength the explosion threw the boy into a neighboring house and killed a total of 17 family members. The only survivor was Ahmed’s two-year-old brother.
Before the war, more than 52 thousand people lived in Beit Hanoun.
According to a report published in an Israeli newspaper, there are almost no residential buildings left. Yedioth Ahronot veteran Israeli reporter Nahum Barnea, who was taken by the Israeli army to meet him on Saturday.
Abu Amsha said he and other members of his family took their two children to their home in the Nuseirat refugee camp, elsewhere in the strip, south of the Gaza Strip, only to be hit by another Israeli strike.
Both of Ahmed’s legs suffered catastrophic injuries.
Because the boy’s life was in danger, he was transferred to Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, a city further south, where he was cared for by orthopedic surgeon Ahmed Zayan.
“We received a child with recent injuries. I had severed lower limbssaid a doctor at the hospital last Saturday as he prepared to operate on Ahmed.
Zayan noted that the hospital was overcrowded with other seriously injured patients and that Ahmed’s surgery would not take place in a normal operating room, but in a room typically used for childbirth.
“We are going to perform a lower limb amputation due to severe lower limb lacerations on the right leg. Above the knee amputation. It’s the same with the left leg,” he explained.
During the operation, Zayan spoke about the difficulties of such a serious operation on a small child and how hard the war had been on the hospital staff.
“The medical staff are tired. Lack of staff. “Some of them were killed or injured, whether they were doctors, nurses or anesthesiologists,” he said.
“Surgery on a child is difficult because you have to specify the location of the vein, artery and nerves, as well as isolate and separate them, which takes time.
“We tried to do this as quickly as possible in order to supply the child with the blood that he lost when wounded (…). We hope for the best.”
Ahmed is recovering
At his bedside, his uncle caressed his face and gave him a toy car, but the boy threw it away.
“He asked me several times, he wants to get out of bed and take a walk. He asked me more than once and I told him that he would have to wait until his leg felt better or after taking medicine,” Abu Amsha said.
“He doesn’t feel like he’s lost his legs.but we will have to work as hard as we try to make him forget his parents, to make him forget this.”
“The boy not only lost his parents, he also lost his legs,” Abu Amsha said. “He’s still a child. What did you do to deserve this? (Reuters)
Ahmed’s brother.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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