Determination & courage of Gaza's young casualties

Foreign Secretary visits injured kids in hospital

- BY LIZZY BUCHAN

FOREIGN Secretary Yvette Cooper yesterday met brave youngsters evacuated from Gaza for critical medical care.

Mohammed, eight, lost his leg after bombs struck near his home in Khan Younis four months ago.

He was taken to a Jordanian field hospital in Gaza and then evacuated to Amman, in Jordan, where he was treated and fitted with a prosthesis.

It took the football-mad youngster three months to learn to walk again on his prosthetic leg but he can now walk, run, and use the stairs.

He met Ms Cooper at the Specialty Hospital in Amman yesterday, where doctors are caring for patients medically evacuated from the war-torn enclave. She told Mohammed: "You're very brave."

He told her he wanted to become a police officer like his dad Akram, so he can "catch all the burglars and the bad guys".

Ms Cooper agreed, saying: "I think you will make a very good policeman. No one is stealing anything near you."

Mohammed is now studying online, including his favourite subjects English, Arabic and Maths, and following his favourite football team, Real Madrid.