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Amira’s first steps

Amira is 11 years old. In March 2017, she was injured in a bomb attack in Mosul, and has suffered from a broken leg ever since. She lives with her family in Hasansham camp for displaced people, where Handicap International (HI) is providing her with rehabilitation care.

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Amira in her tent in Hasansham camp. | © E. Fourt / Handicap International

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 Joint Statement: Gaza ceasefire exists in name only
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Joint Statement: Gaza ceasefire exists in name only

One year since the ceasefire agreement, more than 1,400 people have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, nearly two million still need shelter, not a single hospital is fully functioning, and 1.4 million face crisis-level hunger.

How to live when all your family was killed
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How to live when all your family was killed

HI team is along with Yasser, heavily injured in an airstrike that killed his wife and children.

Devastated by her amputation, Nesma walks again and her life has started afresh
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Devastated by her amputation, Nesma walks again and her life has started afresh

Nesma is one of thousands of people in Gaza injured and maimed by an airstrike. Recovering, learning to walk again and rethinking life is a long process. HI is with them.