Never give up - one Gaza boy's story of trying to survive in Gaza
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🗓️ 16 March 2025
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That's the United Nations estimate for the number of children who have been killed or injured since Israel began its war with Hamas some 18 months ago.
Last year, NPR profiled one injured Gazan boy, Nimer Sadi al-Nimer, who was shot five times by the Israeli military while he and his father were gathering food dropped by parachute outside Gaza City.
This week, NPR Gaza producer Anas Baba tracked Nimer down to hear what the past year has been like.
NPR correspondent Rob Schmitz speaks with Baba about what he learned after reconnecting with Nimer.
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| 0:00.0 | nearly 40,000. That's the United Nations estimate for the number of children who have been |
| 0:06.1 | killed or injured since Israel began its war with Hamas some 18 months ago. |
| 0:10.8 | I've seen a lot, and I never compare conflicts, but that's got to be the most nightmarish |
| 0:19.5 | thing I've ever seen, and one of the most nightmarish thing I've ever seen. |
| 0:22.4 | And one of the most inhumane and cruel things I'll ever see. |
| 0:27.6 | That's pediatrician Sima Jalani. |
| 0:29.7 | In a voice memo, she recorded while volunteering in an emergency room of a Gaza hospital in late 2023. |
| 0:35.7 | She was talking about an 11-year-old girl burned in an explosion. |
| 0:39.5 | To look at her was an infinite waterfall of pain coming out from her. |
| 0:48.1 | It's the stuff of nightmares. |
| 0:49.9 | Shortly after Dr. Jalani left Gaza, she spoke to NPR's Ari Shapiro about what it felt like |
| 0:55.0 | to be a pediatrician in a war zone. |
| 0:57.2 | You know, as a pediatrician, I didn't think I would be very useful because this is war. |
| 1:02.2 | And in war, I would imagine and think that the victims or the war wounded or the killed |
| 1:10.1 | would be predominantly young men. |
| 1:13.3 | I can say that on one day in our code room, in our code resuscitation room, out of our five |
| 1:19.0 | patients, four were children. |
| 1:21.6 | And I'm very sad and deeply disturbed to say that I was very useful as a pediatrician in a war zone. |
| 1:29.7 | And that should never be the case. |
| 1:32.3 | Consider this. Gaza's children have been on the front lines of the war between Israel and Hamas. |
| 1:37.9 | They have been killed. They have been injured. And their society has disintegrated under the weight of the conflict. |
| 1:45.9 | Coming up, we hear from one young boy trying to recover from his wounds and find a way forward. |
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