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<\/p>\n\n Majd Alshaghnobi was waiting to collect flour, like so many children in northern Gaza, when Israeli shrapnel tore through his face in February 2024, inflicting a blast injury on his jaw and lower mouth.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cSomeone had dragged me and took me to safety,\u201d the 15 year old told CNN.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI was put in the morgue refrigerator, because they thought I was dead. But then I moved my hand and alerted them to the fact that I was alive.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Palestinian doctors whisked him away before sewing up his wounds in a kitchen because there were not enough operating rooms at Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City \u2014 in a scene of improvisation replicated across the strip. Majd then trekked alone through razed neighborhoods and military checkpoints before reuniting with his mother in the southern city of Khan Younis.\n <\/p>\n
\n In July, he became the third child from Gaza to enter the United Kingdom in a private medical evacuation facilitated by the NGO Project Pure Hope, with support from the non-profit Gaza Kinder Relief.\n <\/p>\n
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From the morgue to the operating room: Majd\u2019s fight to smile again\n <\/p>\n
From the morgue to the operating room: Majd\u2019s fight to smile again<\/p>\n
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\n Five months prior, Majd had left the enclave through Egypt with his mother, Islam Felfel, his younger brother, Nader, 10, and his sister, Rahaf, 7, during a ceasefire.\n <\/p>\n
\n On Tuesday, Majd underwent facial reconstruction surgery in London, days after the British government announced a scheme to facilitate the safe arrival of ill children from Gaza.\n <\/p>\n
\n But relief and medical workers say it is not enough \u2014 warning that Majd\u2019s ordeal offers a rare insight into the horrors of Israel\u2019s war<\/a> for children in Gaza. More than 50,000 children have been killed or injured, according to the UN\u2019s children\u2019s agency<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n