Gaza – Saba:
Hamdi Ahmed, 50, from Jabalia Camp in the northern Gaza Strip, never imagined that his life would be turned upside down in a single moment when Israeli warplanes targeted his home on October 15, 2023, as part of the brutal Israeli aggression that destroyed everything.
The missile that destroyed his home not only stripped away its walls and roof, but also snatched his right foot, leaving him writhing in pain in the street amid the screams of his children. In a painful description of the moment of the explosion, Hamdi told Palestine Online: "I was detached from myself the moment I saw my leg torn apart."
His ordeal began at the Indonesian hospital, which quickly became a direct target of the bombing, forcing him to flee on a mobile bed, accompanied by his brother, in an attempt to reach the Rafah crossing and from there to Egypt for treatment.
In Egypt, the steps to fit a prosthetic limb began, but his soul remained suspended in Gaza, where his wife and children were subjected to bombardment and displacement, living in a tent in a destroyed school. "Painkillers eased my physical pain, but my heart continued to bleed," Hamdi says with pain.
Despite his need for treatment, Hamdi returned to Gaza after only six months, without completing his medical journey, preferring to be with his scattered family, even if it cost him his life.
He returned with an exhausted body and a weight loss of 135 to 70 kilograms, without a foot, a prosthetic limb, or even a wheelchair. He and his family were displaced more than 15 times, each time carving his soul deeper.
Today, Hamdi sits in front of his modest tent, looking at pictures of his children, dreaming only of walking to them, not crawling, of being a support to them, not a burden. "I just want to live my humanity with them," he says in a plea that encapsulates the pain of hundreds of people with disabilities in Gaza, whom the world has left to face war alone.
Hamdi's story is not just a narrative of suffering, but a living testimony to the brutal absence of justice, relief, and humanity.
Hamdi Ahmed, 50, from Jabalia Camp in the northern Gaza Strip, never imagined that his life would be turned upside down in a single moment when Israeli warplanes targeted his home on October 15, 2023, as part of the brutal Israeli aggression that destroyed everything.
The missile that destroyed his home not only stripped away its walls and roof, but also snatched his right foot, leaving him writhing in pain in the street amid the screams of his children. In a painful description of the moment of the explosion, Hamdi told Palestine Online: "I was detached from myself the moment I saw my leg torn apart."
His ordeal began at the Indonesian hospital, which quickly became a direct target of the bombing, forcing him to flee on a mobile bed, accompanied by his brother, in an attempt to reach the Rafah crossing and from there to Egypt for treatment.
In Egypt, the steps to fit a prosthetic limb began, but his soul remained suspended in Gaza, where his wife and children were subjected to bombardment and displacement, living in a tent in a destroyed school. "Painkillers eased my physical pain, but my heart continued to bleed," Hamdi says with pain.
Despite his need for treatment, Hamdi returned to Gaza after only six months, without completing his medical journey, preferring to be with his scattered family, even if it cost him his life.
He returned with an exhausted body and a weight loss of 135 to 70 kilograms, without a foot, a prosthetic limb, or even a wheelchair. He and his family were displaced more than 15 times, each time carving his soul deeper.
Today, Hamdi sits in front of his modest tent, looking at pictures of his children, dreaming only of walking to them, not crawling, of being a support to them, not a burden. "I just want to live my humanity with them," he says in a plea that encapsulates the pain of hundreds of people with disabilities in Gaza, whom the world has left to face war alone.
Hamdi's story is not just a narrative of suffering, but a living testimony to the brutal absence of justice, relief, and humanity.