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.
