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Julia suffers from a rare disease, but cannot leave Gaza to be treated
The three-year-old suffers from alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC), which causes paralysis and seizures and is exacerbated by stress. Without medication, the seizures can be fatal.
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A three-year-old Palestinian girl with a rare medical condition has been prevented from leaving the Gaza Strip to receive life-saving treatment. Sky News reports that little Julia Abu Zeiter and her family are now in a refugee camp waiting to cross the border.
The toddler suffers from alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) and was recently moved from a tent in the southern Gaza city of Rafah to a safer area - but further from the border.
AHC is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder which causes paralysis and seizures and is made worse by stress. Without medication, the seizures can be fatal.
"We were processing the travel arrangements to get out of Gaza. As we were about to cross through the Rafah border, the Israelis took over the border and said they wanted to invade Rafah," her mother Maha told Sky News, who has been following the family's story.
"I was stuck between two fires not knowing where to go. Do I try to travel to get treatment for my daughter or do I run away to somewhere else? I didn't know where to go," she added.
The family's plight was brought to the attention of Sky News by an American couple who know Julia through their daughter Annabel, who also has AHC. The father, Simon Frost, has been lobbying in Washington DC to help get the family out of Gaza and their case has been taken up by the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF).
It was a PCRF team on the ground who arranged for the family to move to a safer location and have been able to provide them with some medication. "What made us leave Rafah was that the shelling became too much. I didn't know where to go. When the shelling became too much I said: 'I have to leave, where do I go?'" explained the mother, who is now in a tent provided by the United Arab Emirates government.
Currently, no one is being allowed to leave the Gaza Strip and the Israeli and Egyptian authorities, who control each side of the Rafah crossing, blame each other for the blockade.
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