Children's Lives Threatened By Rising Malnutrition - Gaza

Children's Lives Threatened By Rising Malnutrition - Gaza

Bahaa Al-Nimr, a 19-year-old Palestinian who suffers from cerebral palsy and severe malnutrition, sits in his house in northern Gaza on June 24, 2024. According to WHO reports, more than 150,000 people in the Gaza Strip have contracted skin diseases in the squalid conditions into which displaced people have been forced since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October. The children in Gaza are already highly vulnerable to disease because their immune systems are compromised by malnutrition.  Photo by Abood Abusalama/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Children's Lives Threatened By Rising Malnutrition - Gaza

Children's Lives Threatened By Rising Malnutrition - Gaza

Bahaa Al-Nimr, a 19-year-old Palestinian who suffers from cerebral palsy and severe malnutrition, sits in his house in northern Gaza on June 24, 2024. According to WHO reports, more than 150,000 people in the Gaza Strip have contracted skin diseases in the squalid conditions into which displaced people have been forced since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October. The children in Gaza are already highly vulnerable to disease because their immune systems are compromised by malnutrition.  Photo by Abood Abusalama/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Children's Lives Threatened By Rising Malnutrition - Gaza

Children's Lives Threatened By Rising Malnutrition - Gaza

Bahaa Al-Nimr, a 19-year-old Palestinian who suffers from cerebral palsy and severe malnutrition, sits in his house in northern Gaza on June 24, 2024. According to WHO reports, more than 150,000 people in the Gaza Strip have contracted skin diseases in the squalid conditions into which displaced people have been forced since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October. The children in Gaza are already highly vulnerable to disease because their immune systems are compromised by malnutrition.  Photo by Abood Abusalama/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Children's Lives Threatened By Rising Malnutrition - Gaza

Children's Lives Threatened By Rising Malnutrition - Gaza

Bahaa Al-Nimr, a 19-year-old Palestinian who suffers from cerebral palsy and severe malnutrition, sits in his house in northern Gaza on June 24, 2024. According to WHO reports, more than 150,000 people in the Gaza Strip have contracted skin diseases in the squalid conditions into which displaced people have been forced since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October. The children in Gaza are already highly vulnerable to disease because their immune systems are compromised by malnutrition.  Photo by Abood Abusalama/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Children's Lives Threatened By Rising Malnutrition - Gaza

Children's Lives Threatened By Rising Malnutrition - Gaza

Bahaa Al-Nimr, a 19-year-old Palestinian who suffers from cerebral palsy and severe malnutrition, lies on a carpet in his house in northern Gaza on June 24, 2024. According to WHO reports, more than 150,000 people in the Gaza Strip have contracted skin diseases in the squalid conditions into which displaced people have been forced since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October. The children in Gaza are already highly vulnerable to disease because their immune systems are compromised by malnutrition.  Photo by Abood Abusalama/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Bionic hand helps disabled Gazans regain hope

STORY: Bionic hand helps disabled Gazans regain hope DATELINE: April 20, 2022 LENGTH: 00:04:04 LOCATION: Gaza CATEGORY: SOCIETY/TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the patients at the hospital 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): IBRAHIM HABOOB, Doctor from Gaza and bionic hand recipient 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): AHMED AL-ABSI, Head of the hospital's artificial limbs department 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): FATIMA AL-NIMR, Bionic hand recipient STORYLINE: Ibrahim Haboob, a doctor from Gaza who lost his left hand in an accident 21 years ago, has finally fitted with a bionic hand. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): IBRAHIM HABOOB, Doctor from Gaza and bionic hand recipient "I control my bionic hand by controlling the nerves and muscles, as it gives a nerve signal to the muscles in the hand, which enables you to open and close the hand, in addition to using it. What distinguishes this bionic hand is that I do not have to wear its own compression strap, which used to bother me in the past." Haboob is among the 40 recipients of upper-lim