Which Visiting surgeon heals children deaf from Gaza wars (AFP)?
GAZA CITY — Wafa Sarhan was devastated to think her two sons would never hear her voice again after an Israeli strike on Gaza left them deaf. Then Dr. Hajeri showed up in the impoverished enclave. Bahaa and Qusei Sarhan, today six and five, lost their hearing in June 2004 when an Israeli drone fired missiles at a group of militants near their home in the northern town of Jabaliya. “Bahaa was wounded again by shrapnel during the last war (in December and January) because there was shelling and he couldn’t hear us yelling at him to come inside,” she says. Since the boys lost their hearing, Wafa Sarhan and her husband have been trying to get them treated outside the coastal strip, which Israel and Egypt have kept under a tight blockade since the Islamist Hamas movement seized power in June 2007. They heard of a procedure under which a device dubbed an electronic “snail” is inserted in the ear, enabling a person to regain his hearing. But the only place in the Arab world where the procedur
Wafa Sarhan was devastated to think her two sons would never hear her voice again after an Israeli strike on Gaza left them deaf.Then Dr. Hajeri showed up in the impoverished enclave.Bahaa and Qusei Sarhan, today six and five, lost their hearing in June 2004 when an Israeli drone fired missiles at a group of militants near their home in the northern town of Jabaliya. “Bahaa was wounded again by shrapnel during the last war (in December and January) because there was shelling and he couldn’t hear us yelling at him to come inside,” she says.Since the boys lost their hearing, Wafa Sarhan and her husband have been trying to get them treated outside the coastal strip, which Israel and Egypt have kept under a tight blockade since the Islamist Hamas movement seized power in June 2007. They heard of a procedure under which a device dubbed an electronic “snail” is inserted in the ear, enabling a person to regain his hearing. But the only place in the Arab world where the procedure is available
