""When we brought it back to the tent," says Zain, "the adults said, 'Go return that to where you found it,' so my cousin tossed it, and then it exploded.""
""The kids went flying through the air," he remembers. "We found each of them in a different place. I found my son hanging on a fence, bleeding. Both of them had shrapnel lodged in their bodies. And they were covered in dust. My son was crying for me.""
""When we arrived to the hospital, it was out of painkillers and there weren't many doctors to help us," says Mohammad Nour. "Finally we found some medicine and were able to clean their wounds, but because there aren't any surgeons left in northern Gaza, we're waiting for operations to remove the rest of the shrapnel from their bodies.""
Eight-year-old Joud and his 12-year-old cousin Zain found a container of small black pellets in rubble near their tent in Gaza City. The boys thought the pellets might help start a fire for cooking. After adults told them to return it, a cousin tossed the container and it exploded. Both boys suffered shrapnel wounds, scalp lacerations, and bodies blackened by the blast. Local hospital supplies were depleted, with shortages of painkillers and few doctors available. Medical staff provided cleaning and rudimentary stitches, but removal operations for remaining shrapnel are delayed due to lack of surgeons.
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