Gaza children running out of time to treat blast-induced hearing loss
Key takeaways
- Gaza children increasingly developing hearing impairments due to repeated exposure to blasts, with limited access to medical care.
- Her mother, Mariam, explains that Wateen was standing next to a door at the moment of the Israeli strike in August last year.
- Mariam grabbed Wateen, seeing the fear in her eyes as the child covered her ears and screamed.
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Gaza children increasingly developing hearing impairments due to repeated exposure to blasts, with limited access to medical care.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Wateen al-Ajrami suffered hearing loss in both her ears after an Israeli strike hit near the building she was sheltering at, in Gaza's Jabalia [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]By Maram Humaid Published On 16 Jun 202616 Jun 2026Wateen al-Ajrami was just more than a year old when the blast shook the simple storage room in northern Gaza’s Jabalia that her extended family were sheltering in.
Her mother, Mariam, explains that Wateen was standing next to a door at the moment of the Israeli strike in August last year.