"The Israeli attack in Gaza City's al-Saffaweh area had killed both her parents and left Abu Hajjaj who is nine years old with third-degree burns. Elham Abu Hajjaj, nine, awoke in a hospital to find her body all burned' [Screen grab/Al Jazeera] She is not alone in the horrific fallout from Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. Nearly 42,000 people about 2 percent of Gaza's population have received life-changing injuries, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated in September."
"Children are clearly disproportionately affected, the organisation added. About 70 percent of people receiving burn surgery in Gaza were children, mostly aged under five, and many were burned during bomb blasts. When I look in the mirror, I say to myself: Oh God, look at these wounds, they are very bad wounds,' Abu Hajjaj said, scrolling through photos of heavy scarring on her neck, her arm and her leg. I have wounds here and here, and on my hand as well."
A nine-year-old girl, Elham Abu Hajjaj, sustained third-degree burns and lost both parents when her Gaza City home was bombed. She woke in a hospital with a machine on her stomach, her body trembling, and discovered heavy burns and scarring on her neck, arm, leg and hand. Nearly 42,000 people, about 2 percent of Gaza's population, have received life-changing injuries, according to WHO estimates. More than 3,350 people have experienced major burns. Children are disproportionately affected; about 70 percent of people receiving burn surgery in Gaza were children, mostly under five, with many burned during blast events.
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