Layan al-Baz cries in agony when the effect fades of the painkillers she receives after her legs were amputated the result of a strike on Gaza as Israel fights Hamas."I don't want a false leg," the 13-year-old Palestinian said.
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KHAN YUNIS, Occupied Palestine Layan Al Baz cries in agony when the effect fades of the painkillers she receives after her legs were amputated, the result of a strike on Gaza as Israel fights Hamas.“I don’t want a false leg,” the 13-year-old Palestinian tells AFP in Khan Yunis’s Nasser hospital, in the southern Gaza Strip, where getting artificial limbs was nearly impossible
Due to the massive number of casualties and dwindling resources in Gaza, medics are often left with no choice but to amputate limbs to prevent life-threatening complications.