(27 Jun 2024)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 27 June 2024
1. Various of father of little girl, Zeina, who is suffering from severe burns, Nour Abu Zahri, holding her inside Nasser Hospital, waiting for them to leave for treatment abroad
2. Various of child suffering from leukaemia and wearing a mask, standing with her mother and sister
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iman Al-Majaida, mother of sick Palestinian child:
"The World Health Organization took us out. My daughter has leukaemia, and her treatment was stopped at the beginning of the war. We applied for treatment abroad and she will leave through the Kerem Shalom crossing for treatment."
4. Various of Abu Zahri carrying his daughter and crying
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nour Abu Zahri, father of Palestinian girl with severe burns:
"My daughter has second and third-level burns, on the thighs, chest, neck, and head, and needs a skin graft. They took a sample from me the first time, but it did not work, and again, now they are going to travel, and I hope that I will travel so that they can take a patch from me. For four months, there has been no solution in our hospitals."
6. Siraj Yassin, an 11-year-old boy suffering from leukaemia, being carried by his brother and set down outside the hospital
7. Close of cannula in Siraj’s arm
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iman Yassin, mother of sick Palestinian child:
"He has leukaemia. He was diagnosed with marrow failure, and needs a test, chemotherapy, or a marrow transplant. Here, there is no treatment or any type of analysis to accurately show what his illness is, so we were only giving him antibiotics, to avoid any accidental illness, because his immunity is zero."
9. Various of families with their sick children heading to buses and ambulances
10. Various of sick children with their mothers in the ambulances
11. Various of employee checking list of names, patients and their families boarding buses
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kamela Abukweik, mother of sick Palestinian child:
"He has tumors spread all over his body and we don’t know what the reason is. And he constantly has a fever. The child changed during the war. He was not like this, so we registered him and registered our names, but we did not obtain approval for our names, only his grandmother’s name. Neither I nor his father obtained approval. I still don’t know where he is going to go."
13. Abukweik hugging her sick child
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Magda Abu Kwaik, grandmother of Palestinian child suffering from cancer:
"We live a miserable life. Oppression is within us. Our children fell ill for no reason, from the many things they faced, from phosphorus and from burning materials. We were displaced from our homes and our homes were destroyed. I am outside and I have nothing with me, because I am not in my home. I am in a tent."
15. Various of Abukweik bidding farewell to her sick child as he boards the bus and crying
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Mohammed Zaqout, head of Gaza’s hospitals:
"These 21 cases, most of them cases of leukaemia, are curable, but they are now at risk of death, due to the lack of treatment and necessary healthcare, and for this reason we had to agree to their travel. These cases represent a drop in the ocean of great needs for cancer patients and other sick and wounded people."
17. Wide of Zaqout speaking
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Mohammed Zaqout, head of Gaza’s hospitals:
19. Various of buses and ambulances carrying patients and their relatives leaving Nasser Hospital
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It was not clear where they would receive treatment.
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