(22 Jun 2024)
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++PLEASE NOTE FOOTAGE INCLUDES FOOTAGE OF CHILDREN INJURED IN GAZA CONFLICT++

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Abu Dhabi 20 June 2024
1. Various of child with leg injury doing physical therapy
2. Close of his leg injury
3. Students and teacher in class
4. Students working
5. Students and the injured child in class
6. Close of child's leg injury
7. Students in class with a teacher
8. Girl in class on a wheelchair
9. Close showing girl with amputated legs
10. Boy with hole in his neck from war injury
11. Wheelchairs in the classroom
12. Nursery
13. Various of nursery class
14. Close of child with burns on their face from a war injury
15. Child with bandage over his eye from a war injury
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Samah Saeed, lead of the mental health project at EHC:
“Most of them were resistant at the beginning, but we were knocking on doors, going to them as part of a counselling process, trying to convince them that this will do them good in the recovery process, because you know when they’re oncologist patients they need psychological support to continue their treatments, if they are victims of war or they are injured, during their prosthetic process, putting their limbs, they will need psychological support.”
17. Various of 12yearold Tuqa Naji trying to walk with her prosthetic legs
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tuqa Naji, child injured in Gaza war:
“I was very happy, I was happy because they said I’m going to be able to walk quickly now, but it was hard because these limbs are not from my body.”
19. Naji in her room with her aunt
20. Close of dolls
21. Naji and her aunt in their room
22. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Tuqa Naji, child injured in Gaza war:
“The hardest thing, it has been being away from the family.”
23. Exterior of the buildings where people are residing
24. Close of laundry hanging to dry from a window
25. Fidaa Muamma picking up her newborn
26. Various of Shatha holding her newborn sister Razan
27. Close up of the baby
28. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mubarak alQahtani, official spokesman for Emirates Humanitarian City:
“There are some cases who have been cured and every now and then people are cured, but we tell them to stay in the UAE until the war is over in Gaza and the country is safe and then they can return home safely.”
29. Shahd alFaseeh walking on her prosthetic leg
30. Various of AlFaseeh singing
STORYLINE:
Palestinian children injured in the ongoing war in Gaza are adapting to life in the United Arab Emirates where they are receiving treatment.

The scars of the war are apparent everywhere, on the child who’s missing a part of his leg, his friend with a bandaged eye, the girl who’s trying to walk with her two new prosthetic limbs, or the kid who has a hole in his neck.

These are the children injured in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, who have been brought to the United Arab Emirates for treatment.

They’ve been here with some of their family members for months now, some for up to seven months.

In this temporary home, they’re trying to make life as normal as possible, the children are attending classes and nursery, with some even having decorated the rooms, they live in at the Emirates Humanitarian City (EHC).

However, it took a very long time to even get them to this level of normalcy.



The hospital at the Emirates Humanitarian City provides treatment for chronic and acute conditions, in addition to services such as oncology, paediatrics, and dental. They also work with 10 hospitals in the UAE capital where they send patients to get treatment.


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