Disoriented, overwhelmed by the long journey but full of hope.
The 14 Palestinian children who arrived yesterday evening from Gaza to Italy, thanks to a humanitarian defense operation, to be treated in our country's hospitals together with eight mothers and relatives and 23 companions are among the lucky few who can dream of a different life , far from bombs and war.
The youngest is called Aisel, which in Arabic means 'Moonlight', and she is only four months old.
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Three children arrived at Bambino Gesù in Rome: two boys aged 8 and 1, and a girl aged 3, accompanied by two mothers and an aunt.
The 8-year-old has post-infectious infantile cerebral palsy and is hospitalized in the neurology department.
The other two are in the metabolic diseases department: the 1-year-old boy, with suspected genetic syndrome, wearing an abdominal feeding tube and tracheostomy, and the 3-year-old girl, with suspected Gaucher syndrome, a genetic metabolic disease.
Their conditions are stable.
The other six young patients, present in the Holy See hospital in recent months, have been treated and discharged.
At the Meyer pediatric hospital in Florence there are two children hospitalized.
One, born in 2023, has shrapnel linked to war explosions, probably a bomb, in his leg, arm and skull and will have to undergo surgery.
The other child, 7 years old, has a metabolic disease.
With these two children, the number of children coming from Gaza and passing through Meyer rises to 14, of which 11 were for medical treatment, the other 3 were following families with minors in need of care.
Apart from the two new arrivals, there are no other children from Gaza currently hospitalized.
The three minors who arrived from Gaza last night at the Rizzoli in Bologna thanks to the humanitarian column of the Italian Red Cross all have trauma from explosions and bombings and have suffered amputations of their lower limbs.
There are two families welcomed: an entire family made up of a mother, father, an 11 year old girl and a 3 year old boy and an aunt with her sixteen year old nephew.
Tonight they literally collapsed after the welcome and the first visits to the emergency room.
The young patients are now hospitalized in pediatric orthopedics and from today they will be subjected to tests to allow healthcare personnel to prepare ad hoc treatment plans.
The objective is to ensure that everyone can walk again, and for any prosthetics it is not excluded that the children will have to undergo new operations.
Together with them, other small patients who arrived from Gaza with the Vulcano ship and a humanitarian flight to Italy at the beginning of February are still hospitalized at Rizzoli: there were 18 people, 11 of whom were minors.
Many of them have been discharged, while three children aged 5, 6 and 7 are still in hospital, the most serious cases having undergone surgery and still in hospital.
Three young patients were brought to the Gaslini in Genoa who "were in extremely compromised health conditions: advanced life support measures were adopted to ensure their stability during the transfer".
A 6-year-old boy with a brain tumor is hospitalized in intensive care after being intubated during the flight due to his worsening condition.
A 6-month-old baby girl with sepsis, stabilized in Cairo, is in semi-intensive care while a third 1-year-old girl suffering from complex congenital heart disease and brain malformation has been transferred to the cardiac surgery department.
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