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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Wafaa Shurafa and Jack Jeffery

Lose a limb or risk death? Growing numbers among Gaza's thousands of war-wounded face hard decisions

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The doctors gave Shaimaa Nabahin an impossible choice: lose your left leg or risk death.

The 22-year-old had been hospitalized in Gaza for around a week, after her ankle was partially severed in an Israeli airstrike, when doctors told her she was suffering from blood poisoning. Nabahin chose to maximize her chances of survival, and agreed to have her leg amputated 15 centimeters (6 inches) below the knee.

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