News from Gaza - Indomitable kids of Palestine
Reporting from Rafah, Egypt
SHAHANAAZ HABIB
ARE we safe now? the child asked Dr Hossam A. Dayem. He was. The child, injured in the attacks on war-torn Gaza, had been rushed here in an ambulance.
Another laughed with ambulance staff. She had both her legs amputated after being hit by bomb shrapnels.
And Dr Dayem, an Egyptian doctor at the El Arish hospital, could not help but be impressed by the resilience of the Palestinan children.
“They are very patient and brave. One of the kids who arrived in the ambulance looked into my eyes and asked me ‘Are we safe now? Did we pass from the Israelis? Are we in Egypt? There will be no more bombs?’”
“I assured him that it was OK and there will be no more bombs after this,” he said while waiting for more ambulances with injured Palestinians to arrive.
For Dr Dayem, there is character in the Palestinian children that “you will never see anywhere else in the world.”
He said teenager Jamila had both legs amputated because of bomb shrapnel but wanted “all the children in the world to see her like this.”
“She is laughing with the medical crew and nurses here all the time. You would never imagine this of a girl in her teens who had both legs amputated,” he said.
“A girl her age is bound to have dreams about marriage, love and all that. But it’s not affecting her.
“All her dreams are about dignity. These are the heroes of humanity. They are made from something that is different from us.
“The way they think, the way they feel, and the way they fight,” he said.
Dr Dayem said that, on the other side of the spectrum, there were children who are angry.
“They are awake and you see a lot of awareness and anger in their eyes,” he said.
“And I ask myself the sort of future Israel is making of Palestinian leaders,” he said, adding that the conflict would shape Palestinian minds in the years ahead.
“I think these children are the people who are going to make a difference in the future. Imagine a child who is raised in such a situation. It is very difficult,” he added.
- The Star
SHAHANAAZ HABIB
ARE we safe now? the child asked Dr Hossam A. Dayem. He was. The child, injured in the attacks on war-torn Gaza, had been rushed here in an ambulance.
Another laughed with ambulance staff. She had both her legs amputated after being hit by bomb shrapnels.
And Dr Dayem, an Egyptian doctor at the El Arish hospital, could not help but be impressed by the resilience of the Palestinan children.
“They are very patient and brave. One of the kids who arrived in the ambulance looked into my eyes and asked me ‘Are we safe now? Did we pass from the Israelis? Are we in Egypt? There will be no more bombs?’”
“I assured him that it was OK and there will be no more bombs after this,” he said while waiting for more ambulances with injured Palestinians to arrive.
For Dr Dayem, there is character in the Palestinian children that “you will never see anywhere else in the world.”
He said teenager Jamila had both legs amputated because of bomb shrapnel but wanted “all the children in the world to see her like this.”
“She is laughing with the medical crew and nurses here all the time. You would never imagine this of a girl in her teens who had both legs amputated,” he said.
“A girl her age is bound to have dreams about marriage, love and all that. But it’s not affecting her.
“All her dreams are about dignity. These are the heroes of humanity. They are made from something that is different from us.
“The way they think, the way they feel, and the way they fight,” he said.
Dr Dayem said that, on the other side of the spectrum, there were children who are angry.
“They are awake and you see a lot of awareness and anger in their eyes,” he said.
“And I ask myself the sort of future Israel is making of Palestinian leaders,” he said, adding that the conflict would shape Palestinian minds in the years ahead.
“I think these children are the people who are going to make a difference in the future. Imagine a child who is raised in such a situation. It is very difficult,” he added.
- The Star
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