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- “My leg has gone to heaven.” With these words, the family of the child Maryam Faraj Allah (5 years old) instils patience in her little heart, after she lost her leg as a result of an Israeli air strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
While she was sitting in a wheelchair in the Gaza European Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, Maryam told Al Jazeera Net that her dream was to become a doctor who treated patients.
Al Jazeera Net's camera roamed the corridors of this hospital, which is full of tragic scenes of children, young men and young men, whose limbs were amputated as a result of Israeli air strikes that targeted them in their homes and on the streets and roads.
In words filled with pain, wounded people spoke about the impact of disability on their lives, their dreams, and their aspirations for the future. The child Yazan Al-Souda (10 years old) dreamed of playing professional football, and the young man in his thirties, Fouad Al-Khor, was the sole breadwinner for three sisters with special needs and a sick mother.
Muhammad Abu Mukhaimer (29 years old) was killed by an Israeli air strike that killed his leg, took the lives of 13 members of his family, and only his father and one of his brothers survived, and his hobby of driving cars and playing football was assassinated.
Since its outbreak on October 7 of last year, the Israeli war has led to the death of 27,708 Palestinians and the wounding of 67,147 others, including a large number whose limbs were forced by medical teams to amputate and who became disabled.
According to documentation by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, 70% of the martyrs and wounded were children and women.
Source: Al Jazeera