Genocidal war led to the amputation of 1,000 Palestinian children’s limbs – Middle East Monitor

In one of the children’s rooms at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, Ahmed Al-Ghalban lies with sunken eyes and a thin body on the verge of collapse under the weight of physical and psychological pain after losing his legs and losing his twin brother, Mohammed, during the genocidal war waged on Gaza.

Al-Ghalban is one of nearly 1,000 children who lost limbs during this war, where children made up more than 35 per cent of the victims, according to the…