3-year-old Gaza boy hangs on to life after family killed
發佈日期: 2025-07-06 21:19
TVB News
Gaza's Health Ministry estimates that 33,000 children have been injured during the war, including 5,000 requiring long-term rehabilitation and critical care.
Since the Israeli blockade on Gaza began in March, 317 patients, including 216 children, have left the territory for medical treatment alongside nearly 500 of their companions.
2,500 children are awaiting medical evacuation.
Three-year-old Amr al-Hams has shrapnel in his brain from an Israeli strike on his family tent.
His pregnant mother was killed, along with a brother, sister and a grandfather in the north of Gaza. His father and aunt rushed him to Intensive Care Unit in the Indonesia Hospital.
When Israel forces encircled the hospital and issued evacuation orders, patients were transferred to Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
But the facility was overwhelmed with patients and they were asked to take him south to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
With a tube in his throat, they undertook the bumpy, 25-kilometre journey in a motorised rickshaw. Halfway through they were picked up by an ambulance.
His aunt, Nour al-Hams, maintains a vigil by his bedside. Amr is unable to speak or move.
Doctors lack the supplies to treat his brain damage or help in his rehabilitation amid a collapsed medical system. Here is Amr and his siblings before the attack.
We are waiting for him to travel for treatment, said his aunt. Day by day the complications are increasing.
Like many Palestinians living in squalor in tents across Gaza, a peace deal is their only hope. Palestinian group Hamas said it has reacted positively to a latest United States ceasefire proposal.
Nabila Shinar, displaced from Sheikh Ridwan in Gaza City, said from a camp in Deir al-Balah they want an end to waking up every morning to the sound of warplanes.
Jamalat Wadi, who was displaced from north Gaza, said they have had enough of the starvation, the jets, drones and shelling.
Also wanting a ceasefire are thousands of Israelis, particularly the relatives of some 50 hostages still being held in Gaza.
They held their weekly rally in Tel Aviv demanding an end to the war and the release of all hostages.
Meanwhile, back in Khan Younis, Amr's oxygen levels keep fluctuating. So long as he is in Gaza, there is no recovery for him, says Nour.
