"I was playing football, and the house across from us was bombed. My leg was gone. One of my uncles – his name is Khamees – rescued me...My uncle came running, carried me, and put me behind the bus. He kept saying, 'Bring a rope, tie his leg! Bring a rope!' and he tied it for me...he tied it and then...he put me on the bus. We found an ambulance heading to the European Hospital. We stopped it and said, 'Just take us to the European Hospital - we have martyrs and wounded people'...My leg was cut off."
Every year on 3 December, International Day of Persons with Disabilities is observed to address the challenges faced globally by persons with disabilities. The theme of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2025 is "Fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress". Persons with disabilities necessarily need to live in an inclusive society to properly exercise their fundamental human rights. Yet, this would require the existence of a sustainable society. In the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), and on both sides of the Green Line, Israel has done its utmost to destroy the Palestinian people, their culture, identity and the society they live in, especially in Gaza, in an effort to erase Palestinian presence therein, as part of the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.