A Gazan Brain Tumor Patient with Unstable Ear, Associated with a Child’s Ochilles, and an Ostracillator in Israel

Rihani says some of the tumors have grown so large they have damaged the children’s organs, leaving them in excruciating pain. Many patients in Gaza are not getting enough food and medicine because of Israel’s strict controls.

“We couldn’t find anything to eat and we spent months going from hospital to hospital, looking for treatment for our son,” says a woman who spent months going from damaged hospital to damaged hospital.

Youssef, a tall, quiet teenager who lets his mother do most of the talking, was in 10th grade before the war between Israel and Hamas started in October 2023 and shut down all the schools.

Last year, he was operated on in Gaza for a brain tumor pressing down on his optic nerve. His mother said that the hospital couldn’t do scans before his surgery because of a technicality. He was sent home after the surgeons removed as much of the Tumor as they could because they needed a bed.

“The hardest thing was the decision to do the surgery,” says Salha, a teacher and school activities organizer. “We don’t know if the doctors are going to finish the surgery, we don’t know if the medicine is good, and we don’t know if he is going to die during the surgery.”

The Gaza Children’s Fund: Where Do They Go? Why Do They Are Needing Help? How Does Israel Take Over the Small Kingdom of Gaza?

According to the Health Ministry in Gaza, Israeli attacks have now killed more than 1,400 health care workers. Hospitals that are partially opening do so with some shortages of basic supplies due to the Israeli blockade.

More than 50,000 children have been killed or wounded in the Gaza war, according to the UN’s Children’s Fund. The Health Ministry in Gaza says thousands of people have died. The initial attack on October 7, 2023, claimed the lives of nearly 1,200 Israelis and foreigners.

Israel this spring intensified its attacks and aid agencies said in March that more than 12,000 people require urgent medical evacuation out of Gaza, including at least 4,500 children.

In February, President Trump suggested a plan to take over Gaza, displacing Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt while turning the enclave into a U.S.-controlled zone featuring beach-front property. After the creation of Israel in 1948, many Palestinians in Gaza were displaced from their homes.

The relocation plan is seen by Jordan as an existential threat to the small kingdom, a death knell for hopes of an eventual Palestinian state and tantamount to complicity in ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

King Abdullah told Trump that Jordan was prepared to bring 2,000 child cancer patients and other extremely sick children to Jordan for treatment as quickly as possible.

The Israeli authorities are making it difficult to make this go smoothly according to the government communication minister of Jordan.

The main route for aid to the Gaza territory was through Jordan before Israel blocked aid shipments in March.

Source: A cancer center in Jordan treats kids from Gaza, but only a few dozen have arrived

The children of Gaza are not allowed to go back to their homeland, according to the Children’s Cancer Center of Jordan (KHSC Rihani)

Some sick children have less chance of survival if they are not evacuated in time, according to health officials.

“These patients require intensive care unit support, they require respiratory support and they require a lot of nutritional support as well,” she says. “It makes the tumor very difficult to treat.”

One of the region’s Leading cancer hospitals is the King Hussein Cancer Center. Rihani says it has 44 pediatric cancer beds and 24 beds for pediatric bone marrow transplants, which can be supplemented by other hospitals that also treat cancer. Some of the arrivals require only out-patient treatment.

Cancer patients who were treated in Jordan have not been sent back to Gaza. Jordan has been criticized though for sending people back during the continuing conflict it says have fully completed treatment for other illnesses.

Momani, the communications minister, stated that they were bringing them by batches. “We will take these children to treat them but then after they finish their treatment they should be going back to their homeland. We don’t want to be in any way helping the displacement of Palestinians.”

Displaced repeatedly by Israeli airstrikes, there was hardly any food, not even bread. According to Astal, Ahmed has been fascinated by the abundance of sliced chicken roasted on a spit.

The day they were evacuated from Gaza, the Astals had gathered with other patients and guardians near a bus at the Gaza European Hospital to drive to the border when Israel bombed the complex, according to patients and the World Health Organization. Gaza civil defense authorities say at least 28 people, including patients, were killed in the airstrikes.

Source: A cancer center in Jordan treats kids from Gaza, but only a few dozen have arrived

Unable to move? A grieving girl’s experience with “masked depression,” explains al-Dabbas at a cancer center

Leen al-Dabbas, a clinical psychologist at the cancer center, says many of the children are suffering from “masked depression” — not yet able to process what they’ve been through.

One girl, Suhair Zouroub, 13, sits with her mother Shayma’ and younger brother, a blue hospital bracelet on her thin wrist, ahead of her first rounds of chemotherapy.

She was diagnosed with leukemia in two months. When she suffered seizures in Gaza, there was no treatment available. She describeshuddling with all of the family in the middle of the air strike. Her 2-1/2-year-old brother, Jude, pipes up with the word tiyara, Arabic for “plane.”

Astal knew it would land near them but he couldn’t move. The impact caused the boys to fall to the ground, which left her unable to see much debris for 10 minutes.

There are packets of lentils, a jar of Nutella and a bag of flour available for purchase. A lot of people return empty-handed and have to attempt again the next day.

Gaza residents run agantlets to try and get food: Israeli troops fire on an older man as he runs over a berm

In the Gaza Strip, Palestinians run agantlets to try and get food. Israeli troops open barrages of gunfire toward crowds crossing military zones to get to the aid, they say, and knife-wielding thieves wait to ambush those who succeed. Palestinians say that they are being forced into a competition to feed their families because of lawlessness.

Al-Hobi said he was trampled in the scramble for boxes. He managed to grab a bag of rice, a packet of macaroni. He snagged flour — but much of it was ruined in the chaos.

Heba Jouda said she saw a group of men beat up a boy of 12 or 13 years old and take his food as she left one of the Rafah centers. She claimed that an older man hugged his sack and cried because his children didn’t have food. They took the sack and sliced his arm.

He ran and then took off. There’s just one way out of the center. But, knowing thieves waited outside, Saqer clambered over a berm, running the risk of being fired on by Israeli troops.

Saqer said you have to move fast. Once supplies run out, some of those who came too late rob those leaving. He swiftly tore open a box and loaded the contents into a sack — juice, chickpeas, lentils, cheese, beans, flour and cooking oil.

There are food boxes on the ground in an area surrounded by fences and berms. People rush in to grab what they can.

Source: Day after day, Palestinians in Gaza risk harrowing journey in desperate search for food

“Squid Game”: a Palestinian experience in Gaza as a humanitarian aid-seeker’s journey in desperate search for food, says Mohammed Saqer

He said he and others inched their way forward under tank fire. Several people were wounded in the legs. One man fell bleeding to the ground, apparently dead, he said.

Everyone broke into a crazed run, he said. He saw several people wounded on the ground. A man was bleeding from his abdomen when he reached out for help. People didn’t stop.

It’s “like it was ‘Squid Game,'” Saqer said, referring to the dystopian thriller TV series in which contestants risk their lives to win a prize. Just raising your head might mean death, he said.

When Mohammed Saqer went last week, tanks were shooting over the heads of the crowds, as drone announcements told them to move back.

Thousands of people must walk miles to reach the GHF centers, three of which are in the far south outside the city of Rafah. The Palestinians said that the danger begins when crowds enter the Israeli military zone.

Israel began allowing food into Gaza this past month after cutting it off completely for 10 weeks, though United Nations officials say it is not enough to stave off starvation. The majority of the supplies end up at the four GHF distribution points inside the Israeli military zones. A trickle of aid goes to the U.N. and humanitarian groups.

No shootings have taken place in or near the hubs of GHF. A spokesperson, speaking on condition of anonymity under GHF rules, said incidents take place before sites open involving aid-seekers who move “during prohibited times … or trying to take a short cut.” They said GHF is trying to improve safety, in part by changing opening times to daylight hours.

Source: Day after day, Palestinians in Gaza risk harrowing journey in desperate search for food

“I’m sorry, but I can’t do that”: Israeli spokesman Jamal Cherevko tells Associated Press

The military told The Associated Press that its operations are accompanied by learning processes. It said it was looking into safety measures like fences and road signs.

The troops fire to prevent crowds from moving past a certain point before centers open and people leave the road designated by the military, according to witnesses. They describe heavy barrages from tanks, snipers, drones and even guns mounted on cranes.

“I don’t see how it can get any worse, because it is already apocalyptic. “Maybe it does get worse, but somehow it does…” said Cherevko, who is a spokesman for the UN.

This isn’t assistance. It is humiliation. As he was coming back last week from the food center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, he said that it was death. He had been cut across his cheek with a knife while trying to find food and a contractor guard pepper-sprayed him. He came away with nothing for his 13 family members.