Ahmed Abu Athab’s Aunt Jamila sobs as she implores the world to get the boy out of Gaza for medical treatment after he was injured by Israeli fire this week and joined the growing list of wounded stuck in the embattled territory without medical aid.
The boy had gone to the beach on Tuesday to wash with a group of children and a munition landed as they came out, hitting him with shrapnel, she said.
He now lies, swathed in bloody bandages, in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis as Israel’s assault on the border city of Rafah continues.
The attack on Rafah, the only part of tiny, crowded Gaza that Israeli troops had not entered in force, has cut off the main border crossing into Egypt, constricting aid and stopping what had been a trickle of people leaving for medical help.
“Where should I take him? Tell me. Where should I go?” Jamila Abu Athab said.
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