![“I thought it was a toy before it exploded in my hand,” says Doaa Yasseen, 11 years old, in her home in Gaza City, where she picked up an unexploded remnant from past conflicts. It was the noon of 6 May 2015. Doaa was on her way home from school when a strange object on the side of the road caught her attention. Curious to see what it was, she took it and started playing with it in front of her grandmother’s house. The innocent game finished with the device exploding in her right hand. Doaa’s eldest brother, Tamer Yaseen, 24, heard the explosion while he was inside the house and ran outside. He found Doaa on the ground, with blood splattered around her. He rushed Doaa to Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex and central hospital in the Gaza Strip. Doaa’s mother, Fadwa Yaseen, was in the market buying vegetables. She returned to her house and saw the police and a small crowd gathered around it. “Some people told me that Doaa had died; others were saying that she had lost her hand,” Fadwa remembers. “I went to my room, broke down and cried.” Alaa Yaseen, Doaa’s father, is a 40-year-old construction worker, who has lost his regular job due to the restrictions on the import of basic construction materials in the Gaza Strip. He received a call from his wife Fadwa telling him that Doaa was in critical condition. Upon arriving at the hospital, he pleaded with the doctors to save Doaa’s hand. “Doaa was at the Intensive Care Unit. Her hand was fully wrapped in gauze and the doctor showed me a photo of her hand,” Alaa recalls. “It was unbearable to see. He told me that if we would not transfer Doaa to the hospital in Nablus [in the West Bank] the amputation would be more severe.” The Ministry of Health in Gaza obtained the medical-transfer documents to take Doaa to the hospital in Nablus. There, Doaa underwent no less than eight surgical operations. Due to the complexity of the interventions, she was hospitalised for a total](http://media.paperblog.fr/i/811/8115110/gaza-jouets-faucheurs-denfance-L-ED3qs3.jpeg "Gaza : les « jouets » faucheurs d’enfance")
Voici l’histoire de Doaa, fillette gazaouie qui, un jour de mai 2015, rentrant de l’école, ramassa ce qu’elle croyait être un jouet.
En explosant, le « débris de guerre » lui déchiqueta la main droite. Hospitalisée 52 jours à Naplouse en Cisjordanie et après 8 interventions chirurgicales, Doaa a aujourd’hui repris goût à la vie.
Un portrait sensible signé de notre collègue CICR à Jérusalem, Jesus Andres Redondo.
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