Missing limbs and loved ones, Gazan children begin treatment journey abroad

BEIRUT: Six-year-old Omar Abu Kuwaik still believes that by his next birthday, his missing hand will have grown back. He is one of thousands of Palestinian children who have lost limbs and loved ones in Israel’s bombing campaign of the Gaza Strip. “It’ll be big again when I turn seven,” he tells his aunt, softly rubbing his left arm, which ends just below his elbow. Omar was the lone survivor of an Israeli airstrike that flattened his grandparents’ home in Gaza in December 2023, killing his parents, sister and extended family.

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