This 5-year-old from Gaza is learning to live with one leg and untold loss
by Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times— In a quiet corner of the Qatari capital, between an Indian restaurant and a hair salon, lies a 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...
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