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| Photo by Zid Omar (Bernama) |
His lips moved as the young
man tried to speak before tears rolled down his face at his inability to speak.
Ghasam Salim Abu Azab, 19, who once enjoyed perfect health, is now a bedridden teenager.
The life of the last of seven siblings changed completely when an Israeli attack one Ramadan night not only maimed him but also took away his brother's life.
The blast, believed to be the result of missiles fired from an F-16 fighter jet, saw him needing above-knee amputation of his right leg and an external fixator for broken bones in his left leg.
He also sustained injury to his bowel that needed a colostomy - a diversion of the bowel to pass motion through a hole in the abdomen - while his his fingers were damaged until they became gangrenous.
His uncle, Salamah Abu Azab, 50, who accompanied him at the Palestine Red Crescent Hospital in Heliopolis in Cairo, said Ghazan's condition, however, did not take away his spirit to fight for his Palestinian homeland.
"He told me that once he could walk again, he would return to his home in Khan Younis and fight the Israelis and die like other martyrs," he told Bernama through a translator.
Besides Ghasam, his parents and five other siblings who were residents of Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip, survived the attack.
The teenager was among 14 Palestinian victims of the Israeli military offensive in Gaza which began on July 8 and were sent to the Palestine Red Crescent Hospital in Cairo for treatment.
Funded by the Palestine Red Crescent Society, the hospital is one of the hospitals in this Egyptian capital that treat critical patients from Palestine.
On Wednesday, Kelab Putera 1Malaysia (KP1M) president Datuk Seri Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim, who is leading the KP1M humanitarian aid mission to Gaza, paid a visit to the hospital. Present was Palestinian ambassador to Malaysia Dr Anwar al-Agha.
Comprising 71 participants, the humanitarian mission team, which aims to distribute 40 tonnes of food and medical supplies to Gaza, has been joined by Mercy Malaysia and the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisations (Mapim), with six members each.
The Israeli offensive has seen about 2,000 Palestinians killed, many of them civilians.
Reported by Nik Nurfaqih Nik Wil
-- BERNAMA
Ghasam Salim Abu Azab, 19, who once enjoyed perfect health, is now a bedridden teenager.
The life of the last of seven siblings changed completely when an Israeli attack one Ramadan night not only maimed him but also took away his brother's life.
The blast, believed to be the result of missiles fired from an F-16 fighter jet, saw him needing above-knee amputation of his right leg and an external fixator for broken bones in his left leg.
He also sustained injury to his bowel that needed a colostomy - a diversion of the bowel to pass motion through a hole in the abdomen - while his his fingers were damaged until they became gangrenous.
His uncle, Salamah Abu Azab, 50, who accompanied him at the Palestine Red Crescent Hospital in Heliopolis in Cairo, said Ghazan's condition, however, did not take away his spirit to fight for his Palestinian homeland.
"He told me that once he could walk again, he would return to his home in Khan Younis and fight the Israelis and die like other martyrs," he told Bernama through a translator.
Besides Ghasam, his parents and five other siblings who were residents of Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip, survived the attack.
The teenager was among 14 Palestinian victims of the Israeli military offensive in Gaza which began on July 8 and were sent to the Palestine Red Crescent Hospital in Cairo for treatment.
Funded by the Palestine Red Crescent Society, the hospital is one of the hospitals in this Egyptian capital that treat critical patients from Palestine.
On Wednesday, Kelab Putera 1Malaysia (KP1M) president Datuk Seri Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim, who is leading the KP1M humanitarian aid mission to Gaza, paid a visit to the hospital. Present was Palestinian ambassador to Malaysia Dr Anwar al-Agha.
Comprising 71 participants, the humanitarian mission team, which aims to distribute 40 tonnes of food and medical supplies to Gaza, has been joined by Mercy Malaysia and the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisations (Mapim), with six members each.
The Israeli offensive has seen about 2,000 Palestinians killed, many of them civilians.
Reported by Nik Nurfaqih Nik Wil
-- BERNAMA
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