Six-year-old Gazan girl loses arm after Israel strikes shelter

STORY: Six-year-old Palestinian Ghada Dabebech says she was playing astatine a school-turned-shelter successful Gaza City erstwhile an Israeli onslaught deed past week.

They had to amputate her arm.

Gaza wellness authorities said astatine slightest 27 radical were killed, including women and children.

“I was playing successful the school, I was playing connected the swing. I was bombed - my limb - I got injured successful my limb here. My limb was amputated."

Displaced families were sheltering astatine Dar Al-Arqam schoolhouse successful Gaza City's Tuffah neighborhood.

Palestinian paramedic Ghaidaa Arafat said Ghada's limb mightiness person been saved if Gaza's hospitals weren't truthful severely deed by the war.

“Doctors tried to enactment each their efforts arsenic good arsenic technological and aesculapian cognition to prevention her arm, but due to the fact that of the shortage of aesculapian supplies, unit and aesculapian instrumentality that could person helped successful redeeming this girl's arm... the shortage of these supplies led to the nonaccomplishment of her limb owed to wellness conditions."

Ghada's begetter Ahmed Dabebech said helium wanted the borderline crossing to reopen truthful his girl could person aesculapian attraction and a prosthetic limb abroad.

:: March 18, 2025

:: File

Israel resumed its cognition successful Gaza with a dense bid of aerial strikes connected March 18 and sent troops backmost successful aft a two-month pause, during which 38 hostages held by Hamas militants were returned successful speech for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees.

The Israeli subject said the schoolhouse was utilized a bid and power halfway by Hamas and accused the fighters of deliberately utilizing civilian infrastructure arsenic bases. Hamas denies that it operates among civilians.

More than 280,000 radical person been displaced successful Gaza successful 2 weeks, the United Nations Humanitarian Agency OCHA said past week, adding to the misery of families that person already been displaced aggregate times implicit the past 18 months.