Ibrahim Abdel Nabi, shot while trying to get food, he made his own prosthetic leg

Ibrahim Abdel Nabi was one of the many Palestinians who headed to a distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation last May in the hope of getting food for his family. Instead, he was shot with an explosive bullet.

“I was bleeding for about an hour and a half, and no one came to help me,” he said. “They were all trying to find food for their children.”

Eventually, a group of people did cme to his rescue and took him to the nearby Red Cross hospital.

“I stayed there for about a month and a half, undergoing about 12 operations. I became malnourished and lost a lot of blood. Infection spread, and more of my leg had to be amputated.”

But his family still needs food, so when he recovered enough, he made a simple prosthesis for his leg from materials he found so he could go back to trying to provide for them. His rough prosthesis hurts and causes inflammation, but it’s the best he can do. 

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