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Posted on May 29, 2025
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Italy offers medical aid to Adam Al-Najjar, a boy injured in a Gaza strike that killed his siblings. The government is considering transferring him for treatment.
ROME (Reuters) -Italy's government on Thursday offered to treat a Palestinian child who survived an Israeli military strike in Gaza in which nine of his siblings died, heeding an appeal from the boy's uncle.
"The Italian Government has expressed its willingness to transfer the seriously injured boy to Italy," the foreign ministry said in a statement, adding that it was studying the feasibility of the operation.
The boy, Adam Al-Najjar, is in serious condition in Nasser Hospital, one of the few medical facilities still operating in southern Gaza, following the May 25 strike on his home in which he lost his siblings.
His parents are both doctors. His father, Hamdi Al-Najjar, was at home with the children and was also seriously hurt. He is being treated in the same hospital as his son, and where his wife Alaa works.
Adam's uncle, Ali Al-Najjar, told Italy's la Repubblica newspaper that the 11-year-old boy has burns on his body, head injuries, a broken left hand and is not able to walk, and that the Nasser Hospital is ill-equipped to treat him.
"He needs to be taken away immediately, to a real hospital, outside of the Gaza Strip. I beg the Italian government to do something, take him, Italians save him," he said.
(Reporting by Enrico Sciacovelli; Editing by Alvise Armellini and Mark Porter)
Adam Al-Najjar survived an Israeli military strike in Gaza that killed nine of his siblings. He is currently in serious condition at Nasser Hospital.
The Italian government has offered to transfer Adam to Italy for medical treatment and is studying the feasibility of the operation.
Adam has burns, head injuries, a broken left hand, and is unable to walk due to the injuries sustained in the strike.
Adam's uncle, Ali Al-Najjar, has made a public appeal for the Italian government to take action and help his nephew.
Adam is receiving treatment at Nasser Hospital, one of the few medical facilities still operational in southern Gaza.
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