Xinhua
23 May 2026, 18:15 GMT+10
GAZA, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Akram Sharif al-Fayoumi was only 11 years old when an Israeli military strike tore through the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City in August 2024, leaving him without his left arm and his right leg. He now lives in a tent.
Like thousands of children across Gaza, Akram has joined a generation marked by permanent physical loss. At least 21,000 children in the territory have been disabled since the conflict began, among them thousands who have undergone amputations, according to the United Nations human rights office. The office said those injuries have resulted largely from the use of explosive weapons in densely populated residential areas.
For many of those children, survival has given way to a new and grinding struggle. Medical supplies are scarce. Rehabilitation services are overwhelmed or nonexistent. Prosthetics and assistive devices are rarely available. Akram and his family remain displaced in western Gaza City, where he waits, as so many others do, with little clarity about what comes next.
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