Mom of Gaza boy with polio begs for help as Israel-Hamas war leaves family in tent camp: “Nothing is clean”
The mother of the boy who the World Health Organization says was diagnosed with the first case of polio reported in the Gaza Strip in 25 years, Neveen Abu El Jidyan, says she’s been able to do very little for her son Abdul Rahman since he contracted the debilitating disease due to the dire conditions in the camp for displaced Palestinians where they’re living.
“We haven’t given him any treatments. We live in a tent and there is no medication,” El Jidyan, 35, told CBS News on Tuesday.
El Jidyan, who has nine other children, was forced to move her family from the north of Gaza to a tent in Deir el-Balah because of the war. Abdul Rahman was one month old when her family first had to relocate, she said.
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“Abdul Rahman was supposed to take his vaccination on the first day of the war, and our home was targeted and his medical booklet was left at home,” she said. “As we were moving from one place to another, I couldn’t give him the vaccination.”
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Source: cbsnews.com