Shadi Foley/ABC News(EL-ARISH, Egypt) Sixteen-year-old Abdul Rahman Iyad, now in a wheelchair, was critically injured in the leg and head when an Israeli strike hit his home in central Gaza on Christmas Eve, killing his parents, siblings and grandparents, he said.
Israeli strikes also left 8-year-old Abdullah with a fractured thigh bone and arm injury, his mother told ABC News.
And 16-year-old Nesma Abu Jeyad lost a leg after she said her home was hit by a rocket on Oct. 30.
All three children are being treated aboard the Dixmude, a French helicopter carrier docked in el-Arish, Egypt, that s been turned into a field hospital to treat some of Gaza s most severely wounded.
Doctors aboard the Dixmude told ABC News roughly half of the more than 1,000 patients they ve treated so far are children; one in two are amputated.
"Some have one amputation. But unfortunately, we also regularly see children who ve lost two limbs. It s often due to the fact that they ve had to wait so long
Shadi Foley/ABC News(EL-ARISH, Egypt) Sixteen-year-old Abdul Rahman Iyad, now in a wheelchair, was critically injured in the leg and head when an Israeli strike hit his home in central Gaza on Christmas Eve, killing his parents, siblings and grandparents, he said.
Israeli strikes also left 8-year-old Abdullah with a fractured thigh bone and arm injury, his mother told ABC News.
And 16-year-old Nesma Abu Jeyad lost a leg after she said her home was hit by a rocket on Oct. 30.
All three children are being treated aboard the Dixmude, a French helicopter carrier docked in el-Arish, Egypt, that s been turned into a field hospital to treat some of Gaza s most severely wounded.
Doctors aboard the Dixmude told ABC News roughly half of the more than 1,000 patients they ve treated so far are children; one in two are amputated.
"Some have one amputation. But unfortunately, we also regularly see children who ve lost two limbs. It s often due to the fact that they ve had to wait so long
Shadi Foley/ABC News(EL-ARISH, Egypt) Sixteen-year-old Abdul Rahman Iyad, now in a wheelchair, was critically injured in the leg and head when an Israeli strike hit his home in central Gaza on Christmas Eve, killing his parents, siblings and grandparents, he said.
Israeli strikes also left 8-year-old Abdullah with a fractured thigh bone and arm injury, his mother told ABC News.
And 16-year-old Nesma Abu Jeyad lost a leg after she said her home was hit by a rocket on Oct. 30.
All three children are being treated aboard the Dixmude, a French helicopter carrier docked in el-Arish, Egypt, that s been turned into a field hospital to treat some of Gaza s most severely wounded.
Doctors aboard the Dixmude told ABC News roughly half of the more than 1,000 patients they ve treated so far are children; one in two are amputated.
"Some have one amputation. But unfortunately, we also regularly see children who ve lost two limbs. It s often due to the fact that they ve had to wait so long
Shadi Foley/ABC News(EL-ARISH, Egypt) Sixteen-year-old Abdul Rahman Iyad, now in a wheelchair, was critically injured in the leg and head when an Israeli strike hit his home in central Gaza on Christmas Eve, killing his parents, siblings and grandpa.
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