Insufficiently fed baby siwar evacuated from gaza

The crying was fragile, but I heard Siwar AshoT even before she was taken out of the coach.

It was a voice cry that would not leave the child born in this war and who has managed to avoid it for at least some time.

Personally, six months old Siwar is finer than any visual image can be passed. She weighs 3 kg (6.6 pounds), but should be twice. Her mother Najwa, 23, smiled when she described her feelings crossing Jordan when her daughter was evacuated from Gaza with other Palestinian children. The first she noticed was silence.

“Looks like a ceasefire,” she told me. “We will spend our night without rockets and bombed with God’s will.”

Siwar was also accompanied by her grandmother Reem and her father Saleh, who is blind.

“The first and last objectives of this trip are Siwar,” said Saleh. “We want to take her to a safe shore. I want to make sure she is safe and cured. She’s my daughter, my body and blood. And I worry about her so much.”

It was Reem the one who took Siwar from the bus to Jordanian soil, forming his fingers in the V sign when she came.

“So far, I couldn’t believe I’ve come to Jordan. I saw a photo of King Abdullah at the border and felt so happy to get off the bus and made a victory sign … for the sake of Sivara.”

In April, when the BBC first filmed at Siwar Naser Hospital in southern Gaza, her mother and doctor said she was suffering from malnutrition because she could not find enough milk formula. Her body was weakened. Najwa said she could then breastfeed because she was suffering from malnutrition herself.

Milk formula boxes found and delivered by Jordan Field Hospital and private fundraising tools. But with the help of Israel, which was associated with the help, which was partially relieved three weeks ago, and with the exacerbation of the military offensive, it was clear that the Siwar condition needed a more comprehensive examination and treatment.

In the transaction announced in February between King Abdullah and US President Donald Trump, Jordan offered to bring seriously ill children to Amman for 2000.

Gaza’s devastated medical system cannot cope with the level of disease and war. Since March, 57 children have been evacuated with 113 family escorts. Sixteen children arrived on Wednesday, including Siwar.

Fixed grandmother’s hands, Siwar looked at the unknown crowds of police, medical staff and journalists who gathered at the border.

She was taken to the air -conditioned hall, where Jordanian medics distributed drinks and food to the children. There was peace and a lot.

The most obvious was the exhaustion of both parents and children. For several months after this evacuation, this latest was the most striking in terms of a sense of communal trauma.

All of these families know what Israel’s escape orders, or for hours to stand from one area to another, or for hours in the queue, hoping to find food. If they have not experienced death in the family, they will definitely know the killed friends or relatives.

Families often separate conflicts when parents look for food or treatment. One day, Najwa took Siwar to the hospital, and it was the last time the man Saleh was with them for two months.

“I think she will only disappear for three or four days and then return, simple treatment and she will come back,” he recalled. “But I was shocked that it pulled and took so long … And in the end, I realized that her condition was very serious and difficult.”

We traveled from the border to Amman with Siwar and her family. Najwa is pregnant and fell into deep sleep. Siwar remained awake in her grandmother’s hands. There were two boys suffering from cancer in the same ambulance, as well as mothers and two younger siblings. One of the siblings, the four boy, was constantly crying. He was tired and scared.

After an hour, we reached Amman, and Siwar was moved to the nurse’s hands and then to another ambulance. In the next few days, she will be tested and taking into account a treatment that is simply impossible in current conditions in Gaza. And her mother, father and grandmother – those who oversee her – will sleep without fear.

WTITE RIGHT MESSAGE with Alicerd Donyard, Matthew Base, Malaak Hassoneh.