Mother’s relief as malnourished Gaza baby evacuated to Jordan

The crying was weak, but I heard Siwar Assyr even before it was executed by the coach.

It was a cry of a voice that would not surrender, to a child born in this war, who was now able, for at least a period of time, to escape from him.

Personally, six months old is smaller than any visual image you can transmit. Weighs 3 kg (6.6 pounds), but it should be twice. Her mother, Nagua, 23, smiled, describing her feelings in crossing to Jordan on Wednesday, when her daughter was evacuated from Gaza with other Palestinian children. The first thing I noticed is calm.

She told me, “It seems that there is a truce.” “We will spend our night without missiles and win the will of God.”

Siwar was also accompanied by her grandmother Reem and her father is good blind.

Saleh said: “The first and last goal of this trip is Siwar.” “We want to take it to a safe beach. I want to make sure that it is safe and treatment. It is my daughter, my flesh and my blood. I am very worried about it.”

It was Reem who carried Siwar off the bus on Jordanian soil, and formed her fingers on the V bra.

“Even now I cannot believe that I arrived in Jordan. I saw King Abdullah’s picture on the border and felt very happy because I got out of the bus and presented the sign of victory … for the sake of Siwar.”

Once again in April When the BBC photographed Siwar for the first time In Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, her mother and her doctor said that she was suffering from malnutrition because the special milk formula she needs could not be found in sufficient amount. Her body was meager. Nagua said she could not breastfeed her from Siwar because she was suffering from malnutrition.

Milk milk boxes are found and delivered by the Jordanian Field Hospital and private donations. But with the Israeli siege on aid, which was partially diluted three weeks ago, and an escalating military attack was clear The case of Siwar needed a more comprehensive test And treatment.

In a deal announced between King Abdullah and US President Donald Trump in February, Jordan offered the 2000 children with serious diseases to Oman for treatment.

The devastating medical system in Gaza cannot deal with the level of disease and wounded. Since March, 57 children have been evacuated with 113 family accompaniment. Sixteen children came on Wednesday, including Siwar.

Siwar stared at her grandmother’s arms, united with her big eyes in the uncommon crowds of police, medical workers and journalists on the border.

It was transferred to an air -conditioned hall where the Jordanian paramedics delivered drinks and food for children. There was peace and many.

What was more clear was the exhaustion of parents and children alike. In several months of covering this evacuation, the latter was the most surprising in terms of the feeling of collective shock.

All of these families know what will be transferred from one region to another with Israeli evacuation orders, or in the waiting list for hours, hoping to find food. If they do not test death in their families, you will definitely know the friends or relatives who were killed.

Families are often separated by conflict where parents search for food or medical treatment. One day, they took a survivor to the hospital and this was the last time the husband was with her husband with them for two months.

He recalls, “I thought it would go away for only three or four days and then return, a simple treatment and will return,” he recall. “But I was shocked because he lasted and took a long time … 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. They survived and fell into a deep sleep. Siwar remained awake in the arms of her grandmother. On the same ambulance, there were two boys suffering from cancer, along with their younger mothers and brothers. One of the siblings, a four -year -old, cried constantly. He was tired and afraid.

An hour later we arrived in Amman and Siwar, which was transported in the arms of a nurse and then to another ambulance. During the next few days, it will be tested and given the type of impossible treatment simply under the current circumstances in Gaza. Her mother, her father, Jeddah, will sleep – those who watch her – without fear.

With additional reports by Alice Dwead, Sawha Cuar, Mark Godard and Malac Hasanah.