Victim Palestinian Boy takes the first steps in Jordan

Rami Katush’s mother is proud to be proudly because her nine -year -old son pre -knocks football for the first time after the injury.

This is a huge milestone in his recovery because he traveled to Jordan last month after receiving an Israeli military approval to leave gas.

Rami dreams once playing football like Cristiano Ronaldo. But it still hurts and quickly tires, you need to sit on a plastic chair, exhausted.

Its tied up legs – one of them broken – heavily scars and dried.

Each step forward is complicated.

Doctors in Gaza urged the family to agree to the amputation of both legs. But his eight-year-old brother Abdul Salam has already lost his right foot due to injuries and their mothers, Islam, asked surgeons to save Rammi’s limbs.

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The guys quickly slept in the apartment of the third floor of the family in Maghazi in Central Gaza, when, according to their mother, an Israeli air blow directed to the building nearby, rains and shrapnel for children.

The 12-year-old brother Rami, Mustafa, was killed, his body exploded.

His heart, punched by shards, was found only two days later, says Islam. The family gave him a separate funeral.

The UN reports that at least 14,500 children were killed, and a lot more wounded in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, which began after on October 7, 2023, attacked Israel, killed about 1,200 people.

Medical evacuation of gas is crucial, it saysBecause the health care system was devastated there. Only 20 out of 35 hospitals are partially functional, and there is a lack of basic medicines and equipment.

The 30,000 gas-refueling is estimated, Rami and Abdul Salam have arisen due According to the World Health Organization.

This helped to promote the evacuation of hundreds of patients since February 1, when Rafa’s intersection with Egypt reopened for them. But it states that from 12,000 to 14,000 people – among them 4500 children – still need to be taken for treatment.

“The war called on the terrible importance for Gaza Children,” said an ceasefire agreement in January in January.

Rami survived several surgical procedures without painkillers, anesthesia or antibiotics, his mother BBC reported. His wounds became so infected that they crawled with the larvae. Doctors did not think his legs could be saved.

“Rami was in such pain, he shouted” God, you took my brother, and now take me! “,” says Islam.

And then, in January, a rare chance appeared – for the evacuation of the Rami and his mother to Jordan for treatment at a specialized hospital for a reconstructive operation, managing Médecins Sans Frontie (MSF) in the capital of Jordan, Oman.

Currently, he treats 13 children from gas, but has the opportunity to accept dozens more.

“This is the only hospital I know to ensure the physical and mental rehabilitation of war victims,” ​​says Mark Shakal, MSF Head for Jordan, Syria and Yemen. “This is a multidisciplinary help, not just an operation.”

Rami has a psychologist, surgeon and physiotherapist. He was also fed, dressed and taught in a small “school of the future” of MSF, a bright team at the hospital. After missing out so much education, he is passionate about the student.

But he also lacks Mohammed’s father and his brother Abdul Salam, who needs a prosthetized leg but could not leave gas with him.

They are grateful for the treatment, but both he and his mother want to return home as soon as they can.

“Gaza is beautiful,” Rami told me. “We used to treat the gas before the war, but then the help stopped.”

With opportunities and experience at the MSF hospital, it is now rapidly progressing.

“He came to a wheelchair,” says his physiotherapist Zaid Alax, who formed a strong connection with the Rami, helping him walk again.

“He is very motivated. He wants to go back to his friends and his family. He wants his father to be proud.”

He also wants to swim again at the sea.

But there are still many operations ahead, and Rami and his mother have no concept when they return home.

According to the psychologist Zanun al-San, not knowing whether they will be allowed to return to the gas.

A joint place in the hospital room with Rami is withdrawn and an injured five-year-old boy Abdul Rahman al-Madhong, who also needs a leg surgery.

He was in his mother’s hands when she was killed in airline tickets in October 2023, as well as his siblings. In the hospital in the newspaper, a nurse who tries to cheer him up told him that his mother had turned into a star.

“Since then, he rises into the sky at night, looking for stars and talking to them,” says his aunt Sabi. “He doesn’t talk to other people. But I hear him saying the stars, ‘Mummy I ate, Mummy, I will sleep now.”

Psychological injuries of the hospital patients are often tougher than physical.

“Some will never recover,” says hospital director Roshan Kumaras, who says reconstructive surgery will be required for gas patients over the years with a “incredibly large -scale spectrum of injuries”.

But Rami is strong and determined. When he breaks into tears, thinking of Mustafa, he reassures me that it is “normal”.

And when he and his mother manage to get to his family in a gas call, Rami seeks to show them how he can now stand on his own legs.

His father welcomes him, saying, “Rami, you are a hero.”

And now his family has another reason to celebrate – brother Rami, Abdul Sala, and his father just got Israel’s permission to leave gas for Jordan.

In the coming weeks, it should be equipped with a new foot, which will allow both wounded boys to study how to walk.