Two winters ago, an explosive shell dropped onto the home of 14-year-old Muath Abu Rabee and his family. He suffered a brain injury, sending him into a coma for two months. That was life then in the Gaza Strip. Today, Muath sits recovering in a hospital bed at Hope Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn. It took 18 months, but he finally was healed at the hands of Hope’s Dr. Yoon Hahn on Tuesday. “He’s...

A 13-year-old Palestinian boy severely injured during the Israeli Assault on Gaza last January will be treated at Columbus Regional on Thursday. A local surgeon is doing the surgery while an Atlanta family has opened their home to him to make it happen. NBC 38′s Olivia Laborde spent a few moments with them today August 4th, as they prepare for the young boy’s surgery. “We went with his brother...

Where skull is supposed to cover brain, there is only skin. Abdulrahman Almotawaq, 14, keeps the spot hidden with a baseball cap. A brace on his left leg helps him walk, though with a significant limp. No matter how hard he tries, the partially paralyzed boy can’t make a fist with his left hand. All of this is the result of getting hit by an Israeli rocket fragment near his home in the Gaza Strip Jan. 9, 2009. This...

COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) – The Columbus community is pulling together this week to help a young boy who’s traveled here from halfway around the world for surgery, and they are doing it all at no charge. At the young age of 13, Abdulrahman Almotawaq has already experienced a lifetime of pain. He sustained a serious head injury during an Israeli assault on his homeland, the Gaza Strip. He has traveled...

Six-year-old Yousuf receives surgery on his badly burned feet, helping him to live normally Dubai: Palestinian boy Yousuf Abu Roub has bright honey-coloured eyes and a big smile. Like any six-year-old, he spends most of his days playing, laughing and talking about his future hopes to become a bodyguard. Nothing about the friendly six-year-old belies the suffering he has endured since the age of two. The toddler...

PHOENIX – A 10-year-old boy traveled halfway around the world just to get a life-changing surgery here in the Valley. “This child’s life is going to change forever and for better,” said pediatrician Dr. Habes Sawalka. Nidal, who’s from a small village in Palestine, suffered third degree burns over his face and hand when he was badly burned in a fire. He was just 3-months old at...

Dubai: The Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), together with the Community Based Rehabilitation Association (CBRA) Lebanon, is organising summer camps for Palestinian children in the Nahr Al Bared Refugee Camp under the theme of ‘Together for a Creative Generation’. Volunteering to help in either of the camps offers a chance to help the children who suffer because of war and poverty, and...

In the midst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, humanitarian Steve Sosebee established the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund to alleviate the difficult conditions facing injured, sick and impoverished children. “I’m not able to do everything for everyone, but for those we are able to reach and have a positive impact on, I feel that’s what fuels my drive every morning when I get up,”...

Palestinian Nihal Orabi was in a state of shock when she took a look at her newborn child. The baby girl was born with her liver and twisted intestines outside of her body, and the doctors at Nablus Specialty Hospital near the West Bank town of Jenin told her there was nothing they could do for Salma Basam. “They said she is going to die,” said Orabi, 27. “I started screaming, “No, no, not...

Abdullah Althaman 11 and 1do 2 play together in front of the Dish Dash restaraunt during Palestiain Childrens Relief Fund dinner in Sunnyvale, Calif. on April 18, 2008 ROBERT ROMANO / THE GUARDSMAN The United States are currently involved in two official wars: Afghanistan and Iraq – and we have helped to completely destroy these countries. We wag a finger at the Iranian government about human rights abuses...