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San Francisco – 3 December 2024
1. Various of Farah Ammar, injured in Gaza, arriving at airport to cheering
2. Med of a "Welcome Farah" sign
3. Close of Ammar
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nuha Shuman, Heal Palestine:
"She has mixed emotions right now. She’s happy to be here, excited. But at the same time, and she’s happy for her medical care here, but she’s sad for leaving her family and leaving Gaza behind."
5. Med of Ammar at airport
6. Close of Ammar talking
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7. SOUNDBITE (SOUNDBITE) Nuha Shuman, Heal Palestine:
"She feels like it is still a dream for her to be here. She wishes she could have gotten the care a long time ago. She can’t wait for completing her medical care here, getting a leg and her prosthetic eye and hand surgery, and then hopefully continuing her education, which is really important to her and going back to her family. She has her siblings and her father are still in Gaza, four brothers as well."
8. Ammar’s missing leg and injured hand
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9. SOUNDBITE (SOUNDBITE) Nuha Shuman, Heal Palestine:
"So she’s always wanted to be a journalist. After she was injured, she kind of stayed away from it and became scared. But she wanted the voices to be heard in Gaza and her voice to be heard."
10. Ammar sitting and smiling
STORYLINE:
A Palestinian teenager who lost an eye and a leg during the latest Israel-Hamas war arrived in San Francisco Tuesday as part of a group of children evacuated from Gaza to receive medical treatment in the U.S.
19-year-old Farah Ammar was wounded after an explosion last year. Her leg had to be amputated, and her eye removed. She also severely injured her hand.
Dozens of volunteers with the U.S.-based group Heal Palestine, which provides medical aid for children with severe injuries and amputations who cannot receive adequate treatment in Gaza, greeted Ammar and her mother and sister at the airport with cheers, flowers and welcome signs.
The group has helped organize at least 25 previous medical evacuations for children from Gaza to the U.S.
Ammar says, after she receives here new prosthetic eye and leg and goes through physical therapy, she plans on continuing her education to become a journalist.
The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 250 people hostage on Oct. 7, 2023. Some 100 are still held inside Gaza, around two-thirds believed to be alive.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 44,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government and does not say how many of the dead were combatants.
The war has destroyed vast areas of the coastal enclave. The United Nations estimates that 90% of Gaza’s population has been displaced, often multiple times.
AP Video by Haven Daley
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