Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world,

a stark reminder of the war's horrific toll on the youngest victims.

Before the State Department paused new medical visas for Palestinians back in August,

a group of children was able to leave Gaza for life-saving medical care here in the U.S.

Among them, four young survivors, children and teens,

whose stories reveal not just loss, but remarkable resilience and hope.

Amna Nawaz and producer Zaba Varsi captured their stories.

A warning, some images are disturbing.

In here, seven-year-old comer can create her own world.

Surrounded by Disney characters, drawing fishy fish-fish, as she calls them, she forgets

for the moment what was lost in the real world, where she's still learning to take small

steps in her new body.

And with three-year-old brother Omar working to piece together a new life, far from the war

she left back home.

Two months into Israel's war in Gaza, an airstrike destroyed her family home in Jabalya.

That was on December 4th of 2023, Gummer's sixth birthday. Her mother, Huda, helps her to find the words.

She's like, it was my worst birthday ever. Of course it is. We've got pumped seven times.

The whole area was bombed. It was crazy day.

It was a day, as they call it, the blood day.

Gummer's 14-year-old cousin, Muatissam, was killed that day.

Sister Thulein suffered a head injury and was blinded for days.

Huda today is haunted by the memory.

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