hi guys! I’m moving blogs (my new one is @sepptember ) and I just wanted to let my moots know!! I plan to keep this blog up, but I won’t be posting/active on it anymore, I don’t think. I just wanted a clean blog.
I’ll be tagging my mutuals (or at least people I think are my mutuals-) below the cut!!
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please read my guidelines and rules before interacting with my blog!! They are set in place for both you guys and me. Also, I promise I don’t bite! I would love to make more friends on here, so never be afraid to send me asks. :))
Gazal was wounded on November 10th, when, as her family fled Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, shrapnel pierced her left calf. To stop the bleeding, a doctor, who had no access to antiseptic or anesthesia, heated the blade of a kitchen knife and cauterized the wound. Within days, the gash ran with pus and began to smell. By mid-December, when Gazal’s family arrived at Nasser Medical Center—then Gaza’s largest functioning health-care facility—gangrene had set in, necessitating amputation at the hip.
On December 17th, a projectile hit the children’s ward of Nasser. Gazal and her mother watched it enter their room, decapitating Gazal’s twelve-year-old roommate and causing the ceiling to collapse.
UNICEF estimates that a thousand children in Gaza have become amputees since the conflict began in October. “This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a London-based plastic-and-reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma, told me recently.