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Ola Abu Said sits gently stroking the hair of her son, Amar. His family says he was in their tent in southern Gaza when he was hit by a stray bullet fired by an Israeli drone. It is lodged between two of his vertebrae, leaving him paralysed.
“He needs surgery urgently,” Ola says, “but it’s complicated. Doctors told us it could cause his death, a stroke or brain haemorrhage. He needs surgery in a well-equipped place.”
Right now, Gaza is anything but that. After two years of war, its hospitals have been left in a critical state.
