A gas boy for the first time treated in the UK from military injuries

Majid Shagnobi cannot eat or speak as before. He can’t smile.

But with an injured mouth covered with a surgical mask, his eyes shone as he arrived at the Heathrow London Airport during the Cairo flight, together with his mother, brother and younger sister.

“I’m glad to be in England and get treatment,” a 15-year-old guy told me.

Last February, he tried to get humanitarian aid in the Kuwait area on Northern Gas when an Israeli tank exploded nearby, breaking his jaw and injuring his leg.

“One of my friends helped me and took me to the hospital,” he says. “They thought I died. I needed to move my hand to show them that I was alive.”

Doctors in Gaza saved their lives, and Majid spent months in the hospital, breathing through the trachestopum tube before he was evacuated to Egypt this February – with the permission of Israel – for further medical treatment.

He is now in the UK for surgery at the Greater Omond Children’s Hospital in London to restore his face.

He is the first child of the gasan who arrived in the UK for the treatment of military injuries, almost two years in a conflict, which reportedly more than 50,000 children were killed or injured, According to the UNSEF Children’s Charitable Organization.

Its arrival stem from the months of work of a group of voluntary healthcare providers who gathered in November 2023 to create a Pure Hope project that helps the victims and sick children in the gasman to get to the UK for treatment. It is funded by private donations.

“There are some of the best children’s facilities in the UK, but as countries such as the USA, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and many others, the UK will not do the same,” the Pure Hope project.

Majid’s arrival in the UK comes less than a week after Prime Minister Sir Kire Stermer promised to evacuate More severely injured children, although the government has published several details of the plan.

Majid medical team – all work for free – will include craniopathic, plastic and orthodontic surgeons, and hospital accounts paid for private donations.

“If we can give him a face and jaw he can use, then it will not be completely normal, but hopefully he will be able to feed himself and his facial expressions will be better,” says the lead surgeon Noor Ul Owase Jeelani, Professor of Children’s Neurosurgery on the Great Orsond Street.

“Hopefully, this will make a great impact on how it lives and on your future.

“We hope that in the coming months we will be able to help many more children like him. This is our collective moral responsibility.”

Doctors from the hospital had previously treated patients from Ukraine, and last year helped some joint twins in Israel.

Professor Jilani is disappointed that it took so much time for the first child from the gas to be treated from military injuries in the UK.

“As a doctor and as a person, I do not quite understand why we needed more than 20 months to get to this stage,” he says.

The Pure Hope project has identified 30 victims in gas, who hope to help bring to the UK. It states that the proclamation of the government is “vital and long overcoming”, but it is time.

“Every day the delay risks the life and future of children who deserve the ability to live, recover and restore life,” said Omar Dean, co-founder.

In April, a group of volunteers provided visas for two girls-13-year-old frame and five-year genes with lifelong medical conditions also conducted private operations in the UK.

They were Brought to London After evacuation to Egypt from gas, where – with the destruction of the health care system – they did not receive the necessary treatment.

Ever since I met with them in early May, Ram was gaining weight, and the gene, which was deeply injured and removed, is noticeably more playful.

The gene underwent laser surgery to relieve the pressure in the left eye that risks losing it. And the frame underwent a research operation for a serious bowel condition.

Both girls get well, say their mother.

But they get sick with excitement – it’s hard to eat and sleep – about family members who are now fighting to feed themselves.

“It’s better here than gas,” Rama says. “No bombs and fear.”

But friends tell her from Gaza, telling her that they did not find bread for 10 days, and she says her older brother was sleeping on the street after the first house, and then his tent was bombed.

“They’re hungry. So I also don’t want to eat. I feel like I’m still with them,” Rama said.

This week, supported experts said that this week there is evidence that broad fasting, malnutrition and illness cause the death of 2.1 million Palestinians in Gaza.

Majid, who suffered injuries that change life trying to get food for his family, is also worried about his two brothers who are still in gas.

“I’m afraid they will die or something will happen to them,” he says. “I just want them to be safe.”