Seconded By: Ioannis Galanopoulos Papavasileiou,
Tells the stories of Palestinian wounded people who were injured in the recent war on Gaza, And those who receive treatment here in Qatar
Fatima Abu Shaar’s 14-year-old son had just cooked his first meal, a moment of celebration at a time when celebration was scarce. “It tastes great,” she recalls telling him.
Then the kitchen shook with explosions.
“My arm was severed in front of my eyes in the sink,” she says.
Her daughter Tala, 8, lost a foot, and is waiting for a prosthetic.
“The thing that scares me the most now is my daughter’s future,” Ms. Abu Shaar says.
How their lives changed, some of them had their lives turned upside down in a terrifying way after losing all their family members or even their limbs, some of them went blind and many of them were separated from their loved ones here in Qatar by the war after they went out to receive treatment.
Since I started the project, I have gone through very difficult and harsh moments. Some stories made me sleep for two days and I cry whenever I remember their narration of all the horror they went through. I do not know how they can continue their lives with all the terrifying details they lived. I always wonder how they sleep with all these painful memories? Is a hug enough to relieve this pain? How will they continue their lives?
Amputations. Disfiguration. Brain damage. Their injuries are life-changing.
Mahmoud Ajjour and Ruba Abu Jibba are among a relatively small number of badly wounded Gazans who have survived a war that has killed tens of thousands. The patients made it out for medical treatment in Qatar, where we photographed and interviewed them.
They are alive — even if some are not sure they still want to be.
Ms. Abu Jibba lost an eye in the war. She says she was wounded during shelling as her family was fleeing Israeli tanks.
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Fatima Abu Shaar, 44 years old, a mother of six children, had her arm and the leg of her daughter Tala, 9 years old, amputated after their home in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, was bombed.
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Ibrahim Al-Dahouk, 15 years old, had his arm amputated after a bombing near his home in Gaza City.
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Basant Al-Louh suffered chemical burns, shrapnel wounds to her face, and an amputated ear. She also lost her parents in the bombing of their home in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. In Qatar, 21 August , 2024
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bdullah al-Haj, a photographer, lost both legs in an airstrike , Photographer working for UNRWA and now treatment in Qatar. In Qatar, 17 Sept 2024
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Wafaa Abu Samaan, 27 years old, had her leg and hand amputated while she was with her son, Raafat, who was sitting next to her. Her daughter, Maryam, 5 years old, was injured in the pelvis, had her foot amputated, and had wounds in her abdomen due to the bombing of their home in northern Gaza.
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Dareen Al-Bayya, 9 years old, and Kinan Al-Bayya, 5 years old, are the only survivors of their family, as more than 70 members of the family, including their parents and grandparents, were killed in the bombing of their home in Al-Zawida, in the central Gaza Strip. In Qatar, 11 August , 2024
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Nusaiba Kulab, 9. She was fleeing with her family, when a missile hit. Her leg was amputated in Gaza. In Qatar, 30 July , 2024
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Mahmoud Ajjour, 9 years old, had both arms amputated in a bombing in Gaza City and is now receiving treatment in Qatar. In Qatar, 28 June . ,2024
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At the age of just 2, Melisya Joudeh lost not just her mother and her father in an airstrike but also her brother, uncles, five cousins, her grandmother and two aunts, Shrapnel hit Melisya’s spine and she can no longer walk. In Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip In Qatar, 19 June 2024
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Ruba Abu Jibba lost an eye during shelling as her family was fleeing Israeli tanks in Gaza.. She and some other badly wounded Gazans survived a war that has killed tens of thousands. They made it out for medical treatment in Qatar. In Qatar, 6 Sept 2024
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