REUTERS/Doaa... Acquire Licensing Rights Read moreGAZA, Nov 15 (Reuters) - The boy keeps asking for his parents, and he wants to get up and walk, but his parents are dead and his legs have been amputated.
He had severed lower limbs," the doctor said at the hospital, speaking on Saturday as preparations were underway for him to operate on Ahmed.
"We are going to carry out lower limb amputation due to severe lower limb lacerations, to the right leg.
The United Nations and international aid groups speak of a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
"The child not only lost his parents, he lost his legs too," said Abu Amsha.
Persons:
Ahmad Shabat, Ahmed Shabat, Ibrahim Abu Amsha, Abu Amsha, Nahum Barnea, Ahmed Zayyan, Ahmed, Dr Zayyan, Israel, Estelle Shirbon, Alexandra Hudson
Organizations:
REUTERS, United Nations, Alexandra Hudson Our, Thomson
Locations:
Shuhada, Aqsa, Gaza, GAZA, Beit Hanoun, Gaza City, Deir al, Israel