'It was her leg or her life': Teenager from viral video on how she escaped Gaza after amputation

A young woman whose kitchen table amputation went viral speaks to Sky News about her ordeal, her recovery, the kindness she has found in strangers and her feelings for America where she is now receiving treatment.

It was a moment of horror from Gaza which went viral - a video of an amputation on a dining table. No anaesthetic. No bandages. Just a bucket, some soap and a kitchen knife. It was 19 December 2023, and the war in Gaza was in its third month. Israel's bombardment of the northern part of the narrow strip of land was at its most intense. Inside the Bseiso family home, an apartment on the ground floor of a six-storey block not far from Gaza City's Shifa Hospital, 17-year-old Ahed Bseiso was laid across the kitchen table.
The table, where Ahed's mother had been making bread moments before, was now a scene of unimaginable horror, as Ahed's uncle Hani, who is a doctor, carried out an emergency operation. Ahed's left leg was badly wounded, and her right lower leg was in shreds. Desperate, she had pleaded with her uncle not to amputate it but Hani knew he had no choice. It was her leg or her life.
Minutes earlier, Ahed had been on the top floor of their building, trying to call her father who lives in Belgium. The high floors were best for phone signal and every day, she and her older sister, Mona, would head up there to tell him they were still alive.

https://news.sky.com/story/it-was-her-leg-or-her-life-woman-from-viral-video-on-how-she-escaped-gaza-after-brutal-amputation-13141256

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