In the displacement tents of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, Mansour Radwan and his mother endure unbearable hardship, both confined to immobility after losing a leg each. Mansour’s mother’s leg was amputated due to severe injury and bleeding, while Mansour himself lost his leg in an Israeli shelling that shattered his home and freedom.

Recalling the attack, Mansour said, “I was tending to our crops when shells suddenly fell around me. One landed beside me, and I realised my leg was severed. I tied my shirt tightly around it and crawled for about a kilometre until I found help.”

After emergency surgery at the European Hospital, Mansour was forced to flee yet again with other civilians, now relying on crutches to move between shelters. As the sole breadwinner for his family, including his mother and three children, his amputation has left him largely trapped in their tent, hungry and isolated.

Desperate for a chance to regain mobility, Mansour pleads for a prosthetic limb and hopes for medical treatment abroad, dreaming of reclaiming some independence amid the devastation.