- His mother: Two months ago, his health deteriorated and his temperature rose.

He lost his ability to move, walk, and even crawl.

My children and I live in a tent that lacks the most basic necessities of life.

We eat contaminated food and drink unsafe water..we have no choice

- Most newborns have not received the necessary vaccinations.

“Your son is the only one infected with polio in the Gaza Strip,” is how the mother of the child infected with polio, Abdul Rahman Abu Al-Jidyan, received the news that broke her heart in two, when she received a sudden call from the Ministry of Health in the Strip.

Until now, the mother of the child Abu Al-Jidyan does not believe the harsh truth, and she has begun to suffer from her child’s pain alone. She told “I” and “Al-Quds” Dot Com: “Abdul Rahman was a normal child, who did not suffer from any pain or illness. Two months ago, his health changed and he began to suffer from a high fever and vomiting.”

She added: "He was crawling and playing and suddenly he lost his ability to move, walk and even crawl."

Journeys of bitter suffering experienced by the mother of the child Abu Al-Jidyan after the Israeli occupation forced her to flee her home in the northern Gaza Strip to the city of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

She says: “My children and I live in a tent that lacks the most basic necessities of life. There is no clean furniture, we sleep on a worn-out mat, and the blankets are not enough for all of us.”

“We are forced to eat contaminated food, drink unsafe water, and only bathe when water is available,” she adds.

She added: "We are forced to do this, we have no other choice."

Living in a clean and disease-free environment in war is every family’s dream. There is no place that is free of pollution, and all the tents of the displaced in the camps and shelters are vulnerable to the spread of diseases among them.

Abu Al-Jidyan's mother says: "Living in a tent is the main reason for my child's illness. No matter how hard I try to clean it constantly, the general atmosphere is polluted."

Most newborn children in the Gaza Strip did not receive the necessary vaccinations throughout the ongoing Israeli war on the Strip, which caused major health problems for them.

She added: “My displacement several times here and there prevented my child from receiving the necessary vaccinations, as he did not receive any of them, so the disease was stronger and more ferocious on his little body.”

Umm Abdul Rahman went to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, carrying her child on her shoulder, and there the journey of discovering the disease began. She says: “The doctors put him on IVs and antibiotics for two weeks, then they took a sample from him to know the disease and diagnose it accurately, then they sent it for examination to the state of Jordan.”

Two weeks later, Abdulrahman's mother received a call from the Ministry of Health. How did the news affect your heart? She replied: "Our lives have been turned upside down. My child was supposed to be a year old and start walking like the rest of his siblings, but now he is unable to move or walk."

A chokehold choked her voice as she burst into tears, saying, “The doctors couldn’t find a cure for him, so how can I be his mother? What can I do?”

She added: "I swear I want to see him walking and playing like other children, and crawling again like before. Praise be to God for His will and destiny."

The Israeli occupation's closure of the crossings for more than three months has deprived many patients from receiving the necessary and essential treatment, as children are the most vulnerable group affected by the prevention of the entry of vaccinations and necessary medicines for them.

The doctors could do nothing for the child Abdul Rahman's condition, except to give him vitamins and supplements. His mother says: "Calcium vitamins are not enough for him to move, walk, and crawl again as he was before. They are only nutritional supplements."

She turned her face to her sleeping child, then said: "I hope, by God, that he gets treatment and returns to the way he was before."

The mother of the child Abu Al-Jidyan called on all human rights organizations concerned with children to look into her child’s situation and pressure him to travel abroad to receive treatment.