What Gaza’s disability crisis reveals about the devastating human cost of war

DUBAI: Essam Al-Athamna and his family’s lives were shattered in an instant when a July 27 Israeli strike tore through the UN-run school where they were sheltering, leaving his wife Maha permanently disabled, killing their 14-year-old son Ahmed, and severely wounding their four other children. With Essam still missing since the attack, his brother Yasser has taken on the care of the entire family, including Maha, whose right leg was amputated in the attack. Her other leg is fractured and has since become infected. With each new displacement, her survival hangs in the balance.

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