Gazan girl, 2, loses limbs, 5 family members in Israeli attack

By Anadolu Staff

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - Two-year-old Hoor Abu Nusair, lost two of her limbs and her family when an Israeli bomb targeted the Abu Nusair family home in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.

Hoor lost all five members of her family, parts of her left hand, and two fingers on her right hand, in addition to injuries to her feet and head.

The child is one of the countless victims of the Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip that entered its fifth month.

Fatima Abu Nusair, the girl’s aunt, told Anadolu that “the girl is now suffering both great physical and emotional pain.”

Abu Nusair said Hoor is at risk of amputation of fingers to her right hand due to the lack of capabilities to perform surgery in the Gaza Strip if she is not allowed to travel for treatment abroad.

She urged “urgent intervention to allow Hoor to travel and have a chance at artificial limbs in order for her to have the closest thing to a normal life.”

Due to the Israeli ongoing war on the besieged enclave, Gaza's hospitals are overcrowded by 300% of usual capacities, according to the World Health Organization.

Despite the International Court of Justice’s provisional ruling, Israel continues its onslaught on the Gaza Strip where at least 27,947 Palestinians have been killed, including 12,000 children and 8,190 women, and 67,459 injured since Oct. 7, according to Palestinian health authorities.

Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Hamas, which Tel Aviv said killed nearly 1,200 people.

The Israeli offensive has left 85% of Gaza’s population internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure was damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.

* Writing by Ikram Kouachi