Mother’s relief as a malnourished baby gas evacuated in Jordan

The cry was fragile, but I heard Sivar Ashur before it was taken out of the coach.

It was a cry out loud who would not give up, to a child born in this war, and now, at least for a while, he was able to escape from him.

Personally, the six-month Siwar is a smaller than any visual image can convey. It weighs 3 kg (6.6 pounds), but should be twice as big as it. Her mother surpassed, 23, smiled as she described her feelings when moving to Jordan on Wednesday when her daughter was evacuated by Gaza with other Palestinian children. The first thing I noticed was the silence.

“It feels like there is a truce,” she told me. “We will spend our night without rockets and bombing with God’s will.”

Sivar was also accompanied by his grandmother Reym and his father Saleh, who is blind.

“The first and last purpose of this trip is Sivar,” Saleh said. “We want to take her to a safe shore. I want to make sure she is safe and healing. She is my daughter, my own flesh and blood. And I’m so deeply worried about her.”

It was Reim who carried a Sivar from the bus on Jordan’s soil, forming fingers in sign V when he came.

“So far, I can’t believe I arrived in Jordan. I saw the photo of King Abdullah on the border and felt so happy that I got off the bus and made the sign of victory … in the name of Sivar.”

Already in April When BBC first filmed Siwar In a hospital, Nasser in southern gas, her mother and doctor said she was suffering from malnutrition, since the special formula for the milk she needs cannot be found in sufficient quantity. Her body was tired. She said she couldn’t breastfeed Sivar then, because she herself suffers from malnutrition.

The tin milk formula was found and delivered by the Jordan field hospital and by private rates of funds. But with an Israeli blockade of aid that was partially relieved three weeks ago, and an escalating military offensive was clear Sivar’s condition needed more comprehensive tests and treatment.

In a deal announced between King Abdullah and US President Donald Trump in February, Jordan proposed to bring 2000 seriously ill children in Amman for treatment.

The devastated Gaza medical system cannot cope with the level of disease and wounded war. Since March, 57 children have been evacuated, along with 113 family companions. Sixteen children came on Wednesday, including Sivar.

They entered their grandmother’s arms, Sivar stared at his big eyes in an unknown police crowd, medical workers and journalists gathered at the border.

It was taken to an air -conditioned hall where Jordanian medics distributed drinks and food to the children. There was peace and abundance.

The most clear was the exhaustion of both parents and children. After a few months of covering these evacuations, this was the most in the most common in terms of the feeling of a general trauma.

All of these families know what it is like to move from one area to another of Israeli evacuation orders or to fear for hours hoping to find food. If they have not experienced death in their family, they will definitely know friends or relatives who have been killed.

Families are often separated from conflicts while parents seek food or medical treatment. One day Nayva took Sivar to the hospital and that was the last time Saleh’s husband had been with them for two months.

“I thought it would disappear in only three or four days and then returned, just treatment and she would come back,” he recalled. “But I was shocked that it was dragging and it took so long … and in the end I realized that her condition was very serious and difficult.”

We traveled from the border to Aman with Sivar and her family. Najwa is pregnant and has been in a deep sleep. Sivar remained awake in her grandmother’s arms. There were two boys suffering from cancer on the same ambulance, along with their mothers and two younger siblings. One of the siblings, a four -year -old boy, was crying constantly. He was tired and scared.

In an hour we reached Aman and Sivar was transferred to the arms of a nurse and then to another ambulance. Over the next few days, it will be tested and refers to the type of treatment, which is simply impossible under these conditions in gas. And her mother, father and grandmother – those who look at her – will sleep without fear.

With reported with Alice Doyard, Barbase, Base Show, Mark Godadd Front Hassoneh.