Amr al-Hams, three years old, is motionless in his bed in the southern Gaza hospital with bursts of shells anchored in his brain of an Israeli air strike.
Unable to walk or speak, his eyes get started, looking for his mother, believes her aunt nour.
Amr’s mother, Inas, was nine months pregnant when she took the family to visit her parents in northern Gaza. That night, their tent was struck. The attack killed his mother, his baby to be born, two of Amr’s brothers and sisters and his grandfather.
AMR survived after being precipitated towards intensive care with a respiratory tube. His father struck with sorrow is almost speechless.
Now at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, AMR has left intensive care but suffers from serious malnutrition. The fortified milk he needs has disappeared during the one -month -old Israel blockade.
Nourishes puree lenses to him through a syringe. She sleeps next to him, changes his diapers and comforts him during the crises.
“I tell her that her mother will be back soon,” she says. “Other times, I give her a toy. But he cries. I think she is missing.”
Doctors say the AMR needs immediate evacuation from the conflict zone. Without specialized care and therapy, its brain damage will probably cause permanent damage.
“His brain is still developing,” says Nour. “Will he walk again?” Speak again? As long as he is in Gaza, there is no recovery. ”
