Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Nov 25, 2025
DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA STRIP—Ten-year-old Rateb Abu Qleiq sat in a rusted chair in front of his tent in Deir al-Balah. As he spoke, he unconsciously swung his right leg, which was amputated just below the knee, back and forth—the stub tracing a short arc in the air. On his lap he cradled a makeshift prosthetic, nothing more than a piece of plastic sewage pipe outfitted with an orange covering secured by a piece of string.
“My leg is gone,” Rateb told Drop Site. “This pipe doesn’t make up for my leg.”
Rateb was severely wounded in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis earlier this year that killed his mother and brother. His right leg was crushed and had to be amputated. He has undergone five surgeries in his abdomen since the attack.
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That article, specifically the first video and recalling amputations are being done without anesthesia, started giving me literal pains in my heart area.
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Child Amputees in Gaza Use Makeshift Prosthetics as Israel Restricts Medical Supplies
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-child-amputees-makeshift-prosthetics-limbs-israeli-restrictions-hamad-hospitalcross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39484565
That article, specifically the first video and recalling amputations are being done without anesthesia, started giving me literal pains in my heart area.