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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Thaslima Begum and Annie Kelly

Mazyouna, whose face was ‘ripped off’ by Israeli missile, allowed to leave Gaza

A girl with her head in bandages lies in a hospital bed next to a man in surgical scrubs and younger sister
Mazyouna Damoo, seen here with a volunteer British doctor, Mohammed Tahir, needs urgent surgery on her face, which is unavailable in Gaza. Photograph: Courtesy of Children Not Numbers

The Israeli authorities have permitted Mazyouna Damoo, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl whose face was “ripped off” when an Israeli missile struck her home in June, to leave Gaza for medical treatment, five days after the Guardian reported that repeated requests for her urgent medical evacuation had been denied.

Last Friday, the Guardian highlighted the Damoo family’s desperate battle to get Mazyouna evacuated from Gaza to the United States to receive emergency surgery on devastating injuries to her face sustained in a missile attack by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which tore off half of her cheek and exposed her jawbone.

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