Children among thousands of patients needing medical evacuation from Gazapublished at 17:38 GMT
Yolande Knell and Jacob Evans
Reporting from Jerusalem
Earlier this week, our reporters wrote about children in Gaza who are waiting for medical evacuations.
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Amar Abu Said is paralysed from the neck and needs specialist treatment
In different wards of Nasser Hospital lie two 10-year-old boys, one shot by Israeli fire and paralysed from the neck down, another with a brain tumour.
They are among some 15,000 patients who the World Health Organization (WHO) says are in need of urgent medical evacuations.
Ola Abu Said sits gently stroking the hair of her son, Amar. His family says he was in their tent in southern Gaza when he was hit by a stray bullet fired by an Israeli drone. It is lodged between two of his vertebrae, leaving him paralysed.
“He needs surgery urgently,” Ola says, “but it’s complicated. Doctors told us it could cause his death, a stroke or brain haemorrhage. He needs surgery in a well-equipped place.”
