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STORY: WHO / GAZA PATIENTS EVACUATION
TRT: 09:10
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 29-30 JULY 2025, KHAN YOUNIS AND RAFAH, GAZA
The following video includes content which some viewers will find distressing.
29 JULY 2025, PALESTINE RED CRESCENT SOCIETY HOSPITAL, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA
1. Various shots, Muhammed carrying Omar and placing him on a hospital bed
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Muhammad Salem Abu Younis, father of Omar Abu Younis:
“Regarding Omar's injury, he was sitting on the window on the third floor. A piece of shrapnel hit him while he was sitting on the window. The shrapnel severed the main artery, tendon, and nerve. And he has tissue damage in his left leg.”
3. Various shots, Omar sitting on a mattress on the floor, playing with an inflated glove, before walking around
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Muhammad Salem Abu Younis, father of Omar Abu Younis:
“The most difficult time for me during this period is that my son was injured during the displacement time, and I couldn’t even figure out where to be; either be with my son at the hospital or with my family while getting displaced.”
5. Wide shot, Al-Anoud sitting in a wheelchair
6. Med shot, Al-Anoud’s amputated right leg
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Al-Anoud Suleiman Ahmed Saleh, patient, mother of patient Sanad Saleh:
“My family and I were hit by an Apache helicopter missile. As a result, I was injured in my arm. The bone was open. They had to fix the bone, reattach the flesh, and close the wounds. Also, pieces of flesh were flying from my injured leg. My right foot was amputated and I also I have had an abdominal operation. The shrapnel is still in my abdomen. My son also suffered 25 percent burns to his face, hands, and feet, including second and third-degree burns. He needs plastic surgery abroad due to the lack of medical facilities in the Gaza Strip.”
8. Various shots, Sanad, sitting on her chair, showing the extent of his injuries
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Al-Anoud Suleiman Ahmed Saleh, patient, mother of patient Sanad Saleh:
“The hardest thing was the displacement and moving from place to place, but the what affected us the most was my children and me getting injured. This was the deciding factor in my transition from my life as a mother, as a working woman to a woman in need of help because I can no longer depend on myself. I need my husband for everything. To go to the bathroom. To hang out the laundry. To carry the oven that makes the bread. In everything from daily life that I used to do myself. I can no longer depend on myself to do it.”
10. Med shot, Sanad sitting on Al-Anoud’s knee
11. Various shots, on a smartphone, showing a building on fire, photos of Sanad before his injuries, and photos from hospital showing his injuries
12. Med shot, health worker attaching a protective mask to Sanad’s face
13. Med shot, Al-Anoud looking at Sanad
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Al-Anoud Suleiman Ahmed Saleh, patient, mother of patient Sanad Saleh:
“He always loved to play and laughs to anyone in the street who tries to play with him or smile at him. But the injury destroyed many things from this childhood, especially since he has to wear a 3D mask; which is a mask that’s similar to plastic. He has to keep his face in a certain direction. He cannot laugh freely or play freely because the skin has to remain in this condition until treatment abroad.”
15. Various shots, Yaseen sitting in a wheelchair, with his double amputation visible
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fadwa Ali Suleiman Al-Masry, mother of patient Yaseen Al-Ghalban:
“He was injured while playing on the rubble of a house after we left Rafah. We think a missile hit him and his leg was amputated right there.”
17. Med shot, Yaseen wheeling himself forward
18. Med shot, Yaseen sitting in his wheelchair
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fadwa Ali Suleiman Al-Masry, mother of patient Yaseen Al-Ghalban:
“He changed a lot after the injury. He became very anxious, especially since he couldn't adapt to life in tents and sand. The disaster is that we live by the sea, and I had to change his wheelchair three times because the wheels get rusty to the water and from constant sun exposure. And this also affected him as he couldn’t go to school because the ground is not that much of help for a wheelchair and the school is far away.”
20. Med shot, Yaseen and Fadwa talking and smiling
21. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fadwa Ali Suleiman Al-Masry, mother of patient Yaseen Al-Ghalban:
“God willing, we are leaving for Amman now. From there we will head to the state of Georgia in the USA. The first thing I hope is that Yassin walks and becomes like any other child, learns and achieves his dream.”
30 JULY 2025, EUROPEAN GAZA HOSPITAL, RAFAH, GAZA
The following morning after being transferred to European Gaza Hospital, Rafah
22. Various shots, patients and companions waiting to board buses, WHO checking paperwork and briefing patients and companions
23. Various shots, patients and companions, saying goodbye to family members, boarding buses and being stretchered into ambulances. Sanad, sitting on the bus wearing his protective mask, children waving goodbye from bus windows
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Luca Pigozzi, Emergency Medical Team Coordinator, WHO:
“Today, the World Health Organization is coordinating and facilitating medical evacuation for 47 patients and 129 companions.”
25. Med shot, ambulances leaving the hospital towards the border
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Luca Pigozzi, Emergency Medical Team Coordinator, WHO:
“There are still more than 10,000 patients in Gaza in urgent need of specialized care and services that are not available here at the moment. And we are still appealing for more states and more corridors to be opened in order for patients to get better medical care.”
27. Med shot, ambulances and buses leaving the hospital towards the border
The World Health Organization (WHO) supported the medical evacuation of 47 patients and 129 companions from Gaza on July 29-30 amid ongoing challenges to humanitarian operations and access constraints.
Patients travelled to:
Spain: 13 children and one adult patients
Türkiye: 2 adult patients
France: 4 children and one adult patient
Norway: 6 children and 2 adult patients
Jordan: 18 children
WHO stated, “We are grateful to all the governments and health workers for their support and specialized care for the critical patients from Gaza. Over 14,000 patients are still need of urgent care. We urge more countries to step forward to accept patients for medical evacuations. Ceasefire!”
