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    This 5-year-old from Gaza is learning to live with one leg and untold loss

    DOHA, Qatar — In a quiet corner of the Qatari capital, Doha, between an Indian restaurant and a hair salon, lies a nondescript housing compound once meant to host World Cup visitors. Instead it's become a temporary home for about 1,500 Palestinian medical evacuees from Gaza — a micro-sized Gaza-on-the-gulf and a living catalog of the horrors inflicted on the human body by the tools of war. ...
    by Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times Apr 29, 2024 6 minutes
    A Palestinian boy is among the 1,500 medical evacuees from Gaza staying in a housing complex in Doha, Qatar.

    DOHA, Qatar — In a quiet corner of the Qatari capital, Doha, between an Indian restaurant and a hair salon, lies a nondescript housing compound once meant to host World Cup visitors.

    Instead it's become a temporary home for about 1,500 Palestinian medical evacuees from Gaza — a micro-sized Gaza-on-the-gulf and a living catalog of the horrors inflicted on the human body by the tools of war.

    There's 17-year-old Yacoub abu Hijris, who was carrying a bag of flour to his parents when a sniper's bullet found him. He described trying to make it home with a splintered knee. "I walked with my leg at a crazy angle," he said. It was difficult to not fall, he added, his voice quiet: "It turns out blood is slippery." Now he's learning to walk on crutches after doctors amputated his leg, and is waiting for a prosthetic.

    There's Arwa Ghanem, 10, whose family was staying in a corrugated metal hut in in late January when an Israeli tank busted through the wall, collapsing the structure. Arwa's

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