Chicago (WLS) – There was a warm welcome at the Awhar Airport in Chicago on Sunday for four Palestinian children who need urgent medical care.
The organization brought the healing of Palestine to children to the United States to receive treatment with the preparation of the war in the Gaza Strip.
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The goal of the organization is to provide them with health care they could not reach in the war -torn Gaza.
It was welcoming that they would never forget. Community members chanted the four Palestinian children after arriving in Ohair on Sunday afternoon.
They will now call the United States their temporary home amid the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East.
“Most of the children we brought have suffered from painful injuries, bombings, and gunfire,” said Steve Sussibi, CEO of Hill Palestine. “Our field workers get acquainted with children and based on what their medical condition is … some of them cannot be treated, but it can be treated for those who treat hospitals in the United States that will accept them.”
Three children will receive treatment in Chicago, and one will get medical care in Cleveland.
Heal Felestine, non -profit, helps in their visas, arrange children to stay with host families and link them to the health care they need. Children also registration at school.
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Yazan, 16, in Chicago for the suitability of the artificial limbs. Talk to ABC7 through a translator.
“He is a great football fans, so he wants to play football and running and walk …. Be a normal child,” the translator said.
Para Abu Abu, who is 8 years old, receives treatment in Chicago for about a year. He came to welcome new children and had one message to them.
“They will be fine,” he said.
Hill Palestine said they accepted more than 30 Palestinian children throughout the United States, and the plan is to help more.
“We are escalating and helping to heal these children and show them that they do not forget and that their lives cannot be eliminated,” Sussibi said.
Depending on the severity of the injuries, children in the United States can remain for six months or more.
Local hospitals will donate any health care and procedures that children need, as was said to ABC7.
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