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Upon departure from Israel he had pain in his arm and gave him sedatives. In flight he was quiet, he drew for a long time, slept, he ate a little and sometimes he went to look out for the window. Upon arrival, they say, it seems to have sketched a smile. The new life of Adam, 11 years old, who has lost all nine brothers and dads Hamdi al najjar, killed in Gaza by an Israeli raid on Khan Youunisin the southern strip, on May 24, he started again in Milan, where he landed on Wednesday late evening at Linate airport with a humanitarian flight from the Air Force and where he will be treated atNiguarda hospital.
The mother Alaa al-najjar, Pediatrician, he was working at the Nasser Medical Center when Tel Aviv’s jets released the bombs on his house killing her husband and all the other children. In flight, it has always been close to Adam and went down with him, a little dazed by cameraman and photographers, and with an extra surprise: on the track, waiting for her, there was the sister who arrived from Canada with whom they had not been seen for 12 years. To accompany Adam and the other four Palestinian children were the nurses and specialized doctors who belong to the cross of the cross Department of Civil Protection and set up the planes of theAir Force of Pisa with the health instrumentation necessary for the assistance of critical patients. They transported hundreds of injuries to our country from areas of crisis all over the world.
Two of the five minors arrived in Lombardy will be treated at Polyclinic of Milan and Pope John XXIII of Bergamo, three more were taken on the track by ambulances and brought to Turin where they will be treated at the Regina Margherita hospital. Depending on the wounds and trauma reported by each patient, explains the Civil Protection, we proceeded to send them to the reference hospitals for that type of specific pathology.
«It is a gift to these families to bring the smile into the faces of mothers, dads, families tormented by the war. We did a lot like Italy, “said Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, who welcomed Adam to Linate to give him a ball, «We managed to organize a perfect journey. Among the many misfortunes that live that land, today has had a moment of positivity»Added the vice premier hoping that these children «They can be treated in the best way, they can return to live serene, far from bombs, in a different climate and that can recover the smile».
To wait for the plane to Milan, in addition to Minister Tajani, there were also the regional councilors of Lombardy Guido Bertolaso and Gianluca Comazzi, the Areu staff including the general manager Massimo Lombardo And the maxi emergencies, two cultural mediators, the staff of the Air Force, Civil Protection and WHO. “We are over 700 Palestinians who have left Gaza” for Italy since the beginning of the war, explained Tajani remembering that Italy is one of the countries that has rescued the largest number of Palestinian children victims of the war. To date, health evacuations have made it possible to hospitalize 133 children from Gaza.
“It was Adam’s family who chose to come to Italy,” said Tajani, “they had other possibilities but they chose us as well as other Palestinians who left Gaza. We will continue to help them in every possible way, in their faces there is the horror of the war. Just bombing ».
The evacuation was also possible thanks to the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, who made available the armed forces settings to organize transfers. “I sincerely thank Italy for organizing this operation and welcomed the patients of Gaza, not only today, but also by the start of the medical evacuations supported by the EU”, the comment of the European Commissioner for the equality, preparation and management of crises, Hadja Lahbib, According to which “the medical evacuation of 17 patients from Gaza demonstrates the tangible Solidarity of the EU with the suffering population of Gaza: the civilians, in particular women and children, who should never have been a target”.
The one that brought to Italy Adam, explained Farnesina and the Ministry of Defense, is the most important health evacuation operation so far supported: It involves minor injured and sick for a total of 17 patients and 53 their accompanying family members, 70 people in all.
The exit from Gaza was made possible thanks to an intense diplomatic work, which saw the Embassy of Italy engaged to Tel Aviv and the Consulate General in Jerusalem and the officials of the Prime Minister. Health evacuation that was also carried out with the support of the mechanism of Civil protection of the European Union and the World Health Organizationthanks to the synergies between Farnesina, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of the Interior and Department of Civil Protection.
Italy, according to ministerial sources, is confirmed by the fourth country in the world – the first of the western ones – to have organized the evacuation and transfer to specialized hospitals of patients from the strip.
