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Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of injuries and death.
Adam, 11, smiled strongly in front of unimaginable horrors.
The Palestinian boy recovered at Nasser Hospital in Gaza against injuries suffered during an Israeli air strike on May 23 on his home who killed his father, who was a doctor and the nine of his brothers and sisters.
“Adam is remarkably well. It is a lot, much better than I thought [be]”, Dr. Graeme Groom, the British orthopedic surgeon taking care of the boy, said In this case Nile Kӧksal host.
“He has a little angelic face and he lights up in the most beautiful smile.”
Adam and his mother, a pediatrician who worked at Nasser when her husband and children were struck, are now the only survivors of their immediate family.
And their situation, says Groom, is not unique at a distance in Gaza.
“ Like a crushed box of sardines ”
Adam’s father, Dr. Hamdi al-Najjar, died on Saturday from brain and internal injuries suffered in the strike On his house in Khan Younis.
His nine other children – Yahya, Rakan, Ruslan, Jubran, Eve, Rivan, Saydeen, Luqma and Sidra – were all killed in the same strike.
When their mother, Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar, heard about the air strike, she ran a walk from the hospital at her home, Hamdi’s niece said last week Sahra al-Najjar.
But it was too late. Upon her arrival, her house was reduced to rubble and the body of her children was so seriously burned, she could not distinguish them.
“Who were you targeting? Children?” Said Sahra. “Is that your strength?
Look | 9 children, all the brothers and sisters, killed by the Israeli air strike:
The Israeli army says that it examines an air strike that killed nine children of a doctor working in a hospital in Khan Younis, in the south of Gaza, while the patience of the war becomes thin among some Israeli citizens demanding the end of the fighting and a return of the remaining hostages.
The youngest of the children killed was six months old, and the oldest was 13 years old, according to Al-Najjar’s brother, Ali Al-Najjar.
He too rushed to the scene of the bombardment that day.
“The house was like a box of sardines crushed,” he told CBC News the day after the strike, when his brother was still in intensive care.
The Israeli army confirmed that it had led an air strike on Khan Younis that day, but said that it was targeting suspects in a structure close to Israeli soldiers.
The soldiers examine that “unrescited civilians” have been killed, he said, adding that the military had evacuated civilians from the area before the start of the operation.
Sahra says that there is no good reason why her uncle and family should be targeted.
“He was very straight,” she said. “He was very famous in the medical field. He had nothing to do with political movements.”
Dozens of Palestinians paraded in Hamdi’s funeral in Gaza on Saturday.
The doctor served in 14 wars, but not so bad as this
Groom says he was in regular contact with Adam’s mother, although their conversations focused on the health of her surviving son.
“She is ready and professional,” he said. “She is very interested in Adam and her progress.”
Groom says that whole families are almost wiped out have become normal for the course in Gaza. He works for the Islamic Help UK charitable and said he served in 14 world conflicts.
“If we bring together all the others, it would not be to match this,” he said. “The number of wounded, the appalling nature of their injuries, the long -term inevitable disability exceeds everything we met to date – and I had a long career to take care of the wounded of many wars.”
Last week, he said, he operated a seven-year-old boy who lost his two parents and all his brothers and sisters except one. At night, he shouted for a mother who had already gone.
“Each operation [room] Has stories like that, “he said.” When I speak to Palestinian friends and colleagues on this subject, they raise their shoulders and say: “It’s our life.” “”
Israel began its offensive in Gaza in response to the attack led by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people, mainly civilians, according to Israeli accounts, and saw 251 taken as hostages in Gaza.
Israel’s campaign has devastated a large part of Gaza, killing more than 54,000 Palestinians, according to Gazan Tallies, and has left huge expanses of the territory, including schools, hospitals and residential buildings, in ruins.
The International Court of Justice is investigating If the actions of Israel in Gaza constitute a genocide, an Israel allegation strongly denies and which has been repeated by the human rights group Amnesty International.
Last month, Canada joined Great Britain and France threaten Israel with sanctions If this does not stop a renewed military offensive in Gaza and does not increase the restrictions.
This smile again
As for Adam, Groom says he makes a remarkable recovery.
When the child arrived for the first time in the operating room a little over a week ago, he was dirty and seriously injured, his body dotted with penetrating injuries of the explosion force.
He was bleeding from both ears, the result of a skull injury, and his left arm and his wrist were broken.
Groom says they thought they should amputate his arm, but in the end, they were able to save him.
Adam speaks well English, says Groom, so he is able to communicate clearly with him. But he doesn’t know how much the boy understands what happened to his family.
“Our conversation is at a functional level. I try to make friends with him. I try to make him confident when he sees me,” he said.
“And I have an absolutely certain way to produce this glorious smile that he has by offering him a chocolate bar.”
With Mohamed El Saife files, Yasmine Hassan and Reuters. GRAEME GROROM interview produced by Chris Harbord
