Slow rollout of ceasefire and limited medical evacuations leave many amputees waiting for care; they describe lives frozen by injury and grief

“It's my right to live, to have another child, to regain what I lost, to walk, just to walk again,” Al-Mabhouh said. “Now my future is paralysed. They destroyed my dreams.”

The World Health Organization says Israel’s bombardment in Gaza for the past two years has left tens of thousands of Palestinians with life-changing injuries, including at least 6,000 people with amputations.