At the peak of the Israel-Gaza conflict, 10 children a day were losing one or both legs. For those who cross the border for medical help, physical recovery is only the start of their struggle
Such cruelty is almost beyond belief – Peter
Ola Jamal, 36, was breastfeeding her two-month-old son, Zain, when the missile struck al-Nasr hospital in Gaza in November 2023. When the explosion hit the building, the shrapnel went through Jamal’s arm while she held her infant.
“I ran with my family to the hospital and stayed there to hide,” she says at a prosthetic centre in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. “We thought it would be safe because it’s a children’s hospital.”
In the chaos of the strike, help was not an option. “Everyone in the hospital was screaming. The blood from my arms was all over his [Zain’s] face, also my other three children were sitting next to me.”
Jamal says she waited an hour for an ambulance to transport her to al-Shifa hospital, another facility in Gaza, where she had to have her arm amputated. During that time, she was separated from her children, who were placed with another family for care.
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