The children of Gaza suffer greatly under bombardment and starvation (Anatolia)

“I hope to install a prosthetic limb and become a doctor.” With these words, which she wrote on a blackboard in a school classroom, the 11-year-old Palestinian girl, Razan Arafat, summed up her dreams after an Israeli raid amputated her leg.

While leaning on crutches, Razan tries to overcome feelings of deep sadness as a result of what happened to her during the devastating war. She speaks from a shelter where she took refuge in a school in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Tragedy

Razan Arafat lost her left leg, as did all her family members, as a result of an Israeli raid that targeted their house in Gaza City. Razan survived with difficulty after being rescued from under the rubble of the demolished house.

The grieving girl currently lives with her uncle’s family, which was displaced to the city of Rafah to escape the violent Israeli raids in Gaza, while she is still struggling to adapt to the new situation.

Razan says in a press interview, “The occupation planes targeted our house in Gaza. The house was completely destroyed, my left leg was amputated, and my entire family was martyred.”

She added, her small, shining eyes filled with tears, "I am now alone, without a mother, father, or brothers. All I have now are crutches that I lean on to be able to walk."

She bitterly wonders, "What sin did I commit to lose my family?! What sin did I commit to lose my feet?! I hope to be able to walk, play, and run, and I also hope to return to school like the rest of the children in the world."

She continues, "The occupation deprived me of my most basic rights, such as the ability to walk, and destroyed my future."

This shock was not easy for the child Razan, who still bursts into tears whenever she looks at her amputated leg and feels deep sadness.

The child Razan still bursts into tears whenever she looks at her amputated leg (agencies)

Simple dreams

Razan dreams of obtaining a prosthetic limb that will enable her to move freely and do without her crutches, and to continue her education like her peers to achieve her dream of becoming a doctor.

She hopes that the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip will stop, and that she will return to Gaza City, from which she was displaced, to resume her studies and work hard to achieve her dreams of studying medicine.

It speaks at length about the injustice to which the children of Gaza are exposed, and the harm, displacement, and starvation they have been subjected to without any fault.

Razan appeals to the whole world to intervene to put an end to the war and the suffering of the children of the Gaza Strip, and she hopes that she and other children will obtain their right to live in dignity and security like the rest of the children of the world.

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip indicates that more than 12,300 children have been martyred in the Strip since October 7, and the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced last Tuesday that the number of children who were martyred as a result of the ongoing war on the Strip exceeded the number of children who were martyred as a result of the ongoing war on the Strip. Children who died during 4 years of conflicts around the world.

Source: Anadolu Agency