The president of Rome's Vatican-owned
Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Tiziano Onesti, and Father
Ibrahim Faltas, a Franciscan from the Custody of the Holy Land,
said children from Gaza told them they had "left hell" in the
Strip after meeting them in the wards in the Italian capital
Tuesday.
The two men reported that "eyes welled up with tears, but also
contentment, curiosity and surprise at being in a foreign
country that has welcomed them, the children from the Gaza
Strip, now being treated at the Bambino Gesù paediatric
hospital, said they had "left hell behind'".
Four injured kids from the Strip are being treated in Rome,
three in Florence and three in Genoa, where doctors said they
had clearly been operated on without anaesthetic in Gaza amid
the Israeli bombardment.
They are the first 10 of an estimated 100 children Italy has
agreed to treat.
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