GAZA — Remaja Diaa Al-Adini adalah salah seorang daripada segelintir rakyat Palestin yang menemui hospital berfungsi di Gaza dilanda perang selepas dia cedera akibat serangan Israel.
Tetapi dia tidak mempunyai banyak masa untuk pulih selepas doktor memotong kedua-dua lengannya.
Adini, 15, tiba-tiba terpaksa meninggalkan kemudahan perubatan itu selepas tentera Israel mengarahkan orang ramai beredar sebelum serangan dalam perangnya terhadap kumpulan militan Palestin Hamas. Dia berjaya ke hospital medan Amerika.
Berlumba-lumba untuk menyelamatkan nyawa anda amat sukar bagi rakyat Palestin seperti Adini, yang memerlukan rawatan perubatan segera tetapi terperangkap dalam huru-hara perang.
Kenangan hari-hari yang lebih baik memberikan kelegaan terhad dari realiti di Gaza.
Serangan Israel telah mengurangkan sebahagian besar salah satu tempat paling sesak di bumi menjadi runtuhan apabila deretan dan deretan rumah musnah.
“Kami pernah berenang, mencabar satu sama lain, dan tidur, saya dan rakan saya Mohammed Al-Serei. Kami pernah melompat ke dalam air dan terapung di atasnya,” kata Adini, yang berjalan di pantai bersama kakaknya Aya mengingati beberapa gangguan sebelum ini.
Kakaknya meletakkan tuala di atas tempat lengannya dahulu dan mengelap mulutnya.
Serangan melanda ketika dia berada di kedai kopi sementara.
Remaja itu, yang menghabiskan 12 hari di hospital sebelum dia dipindahkan juga kehilangan ibu saudaranya, anak serta cucunya (ibu saudara) dalam peperangan.
“Bagi lengan saya, saya boleh memasangkan yang lain tetapi saya tidak boleh menggantikan ibu saudara saya,” katanya.
Apa yang rakyat Palestin boleh lakukan ialah mengharapkan rawatan di beberapa hospital berfungsi ketika mereka menghadapi krisis kemanusiaan – kekurangan makanan, bahan api, kuasa dan ubat yang teruk, kerana kumbahan mentah meningkatkan peluang penyakit.
“Insya-Allah, saya akan meneruskan rawatan saya di hospital Amerika, dan mendapatkan anggota badan,” kata Adini.
Dia mengimpikan untuk menjadi seperti kanak-kanak lain suatu hari nanti — untuk menjalani kehidupan yang baik, mendapat pendidikan, memandu kereta dan berseronok. Kakaknya Aya berharap dia boleh kembali ke kamera dan iPadnya.
AN-REUTERS, 28/08/2024
In English
Gaza teen amputee recalls nightmare of losing arms
GAZA — Teenager Diaa Al-Adini was one of the few Palestinians who found a functioning hospital in war-ravaged Gaza after he was wounded by an Israeli strike. But he did not have much time to recuperate after doctors amputated both of his arms.
Adini, 15, suddenly had to flee the overwhelmed medical facility after the Israeli military ordered people to leave before an attack in its war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas. He made it to an American field hospital.
Scrambling to save your life is especially difficult for Palestinians like Adini, who require urgent medical care but get caught up in the chaos of the war.
Memories of better days provide limited relief from reality in Gaza. Israeli strikes have reduced most of one of the most crowded places on earth to rubble as rows and rows of homes are destroyed.
“We used to swim, challenge each other, and sleep, me and my friend Mohammed Al-Serei. We used to jump in the water and float on it,” said Adini, who walked on a beach with his sister Aya recalling the few distractions from before.
His sister placed a towel over the place where his arms used to be and wiped his mouth.
The strike hit when he was in a makeshift coffee house.
The teenager, who spent 12 days in hospital before he was displaced also lost his aunt, her children and grandchildren in the war.
“As for my arms, I can get other ones fitted but I cannot replace my aunt,” he said.
All Palestinians can do is hope for treatment at the few functional hospitals as they face a humanitarian crisis — severe shortages of food, fuel, power and medicine, as raw sewage increases the chance of disease.
“God willing, I will continue my treatment in the American hospital, and get limbs,” said Adini.
He dreams of being like other children one day — to live a good life, get an education, drive cars and have fun. His sister Aya hopes that he can go back to his camera and iPad.
AN-REUTERS
