‘Where did my legs go?’

On the morning of September 2, Shaima al-Daqqi got up early to take her three-year-old and 22-month-old daughters to get the polio vaccine, which was being offered to people amid Israel’s war on Gaza.

The following day, Israel bombed their home in Deir el-Balah.

The two toddlers have been in the hospital for four months, battered and bleeding from the bombing, and had their legs amputated.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/23/gaza-toddlers-got-the-polio-vaccine-then-an-israeli-bomb-took-their-legs

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Gaza toddlers got the polio vaccine, then an Israeli bomb took their legs

An Israeli bomb killed three-year-old Hanan and 22-month-old Misk’s mother and made them amputees.

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Hanan before and after.

Shefa holds a mobile showing Hanan before an Israeli bomb destroyed her legs [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

Hanan wants to wear shoes and she asks me why she can’t … why she can’t go play in the park.”

“I don’t have answers.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/23/gaza-toddlers-got-the-polio-vaccine-then-an-israeli-bomb-took-their-legs

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Gaza toddlers got the polio vaccine, then an Israeli bomb took their legs

An Israeli bomb killed three-year-old Hanan and 22-month-old Misk’s mother and made them amputees.

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@appassionato @palestine perhaps the genius of hideous cruelty and callousness, is that few have the guts to look at it; vile evidence is too hideous for the majority of consciences to bear?