With a unique and complex surgery amidst poor health conditions, an Iraqi surgeon succeeded in renewing joy in the heart of the child Maryam Sabah (9 years old) in the middle of the Gaza Strip, by reattaching her amputated hand, which was found with difficulty from under the rubble 3 days after a violent Israeli bombardment.

God’s grace, which preserved the amputated hand under the rubble, enabled the Iraqi doctor, consultant peripheral nerve surgeon, Mohammed Al-Tahir, from the “Fajr Scientific” Foundation, to reattach it in a unique and complex surgery that lasted hours despite the weak medical capabilities in the sector.

Al-Taher said in a video recording that he arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip with many injuries as a result of a series of raids launched by Israeli occupation aircraft on the area.

The Iraqi surgeon added that during his inspection of the reception and emergency department, he found a 9-year-old girl whose hand had been amputated and who had suffered a severe stomach injury. He quickly asked her father about the location of the limb (the amputated hand), and the father told him that it remained under the rubble.

"I asked them, 'Can you bring me the limb?'" Taher continued, adding that the father "was surprised and said, 'We'll try.'"

After a while, the girl's family was able to bring the amputated limb, where the Iraqi surgeon performed an autopsy and found that it could be reattached.

The surgeon said: “The weather was freezing, the hand was cold, and when I dissected it, I found it ready to be reattached.”

Despite the success of the operation, which took hours, there are concerns that the limb may become infected, especially given that it was contaminated with chemicals as a result of the missile explosion, according to what the surgeon indicated.

During the previous days, the Gaza Strip witnessed intensive Israeli raids on various areas, which resulted in massacres that claimed the lives of dozens of martyrs and wounded.

These raids coincided with extremely cold weather, frost waves and heavy rains that hit the Strip, causing the death of a number of citizens, especially children, and the drowning and drifting of hundreds of displaced people’s tents.

The same sources indicated that the Iraqi surgeon Taher worked for 5 months during the genocidal war committed by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip without "tiring or getting bored" to save the wounded.

She continued: "He concluded his operations with a special operation during which he brought a girl's hand back to life after it was amputated due to the occupation's bombing of her home."

The Iraqi surgeon said that he "witnessed many difficult cases during his work in the northern Gaza Strip, which could have been saved, but lost their lives either due to a shortage of specialized medical staff, or treatment and medical supplies."

Al-Tahir pointed out that the remaining health facilities in northern Gaza "lack the minimum surgical tools and supplies."

He called on medical cadres with various surgical specialties around the world to come to the sector, in order to save the lives of the wounded.

He also called on international and UN institutions to work on bringing in medical supplies to save the wounded.