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Hamzeh, a West Bank Refugee Camp, March 2010

Hamzeh is a healthy, ten year old boy, from a Refugee Camp near Nablus. His father works as an accountant in a bank and his mother is a housewife.  His grandparents were made refugees in 1948 and the...

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Mr. Nawaf Khader, Sawahreh Village, March 2010

Mr. Nawaf Khader is a 68 year old male patient from the Sawahreh village in the Jerusalem Governorate.  He is a diabetic and hypertensive and underwent bilateral cataract extraction at the St John Eye...

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Ayyoub, West Bank, March 2010

Ayyoub  from  near Jericho, is a ten year old boy in the 4th grade at school.  He has four brothers and two sisters. His father is a civil servant, and his mother is a housewife.  His parents are first...

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Mrs Mousa, Jericho, September 2010

Mrs Itaf Mousa’s is a bittersweet tale.  Itaf is a 47 year old female patient who presented at one of our Mobile Outreach Clinics in the village of Al Ouja near Jericho.  She complained of mild ocular...

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Fadi, Gaza Strip, September 2010

Fadi Anwar is a ten year old boy from the Gaza Stripwho lives in a humble house with his parents and three siblings.  Unfortunately, Fadi suffers from congenital disease in both eyes.  His is a very...

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Hiba, Gaza Strip, October 2010

Hiba is a ten year girl who lives in the Gaza Stripwith her parents and five siblings.  She suffers from a number of health issues, including a very complicated condition of the eye. Hiba was born with...

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The Thawabteh Family, Bethlehem, December 2010

Mr Hisham Thawabteh is a 40 year old man from Beit-Fajar, a village near Bethlehem.  He has five children (three boys and two daughters), four of whom were found to suffer from low visual acuity early...

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The Libdeh Family, Jerusalem, December 2010

Hisham Abu Libdeh is a 52 year old father of seven. He suffers from mental health issues and is unemployed. His own father was treated for retinal problems at the St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem some...

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Mrs Shamasneh, Ramallah, December 2010

Mrs. Aisheh Shamasneh is a 50 year old refugee, currently living in Qatanneh in Ramallah.  A housewife, she is married and has three daughters and eight sons, aged between 14 and 33.  Four of her...

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Brothers Bashar and Ibrahim, West Bank, December 2010

Bashar (14) and Ibrahim (11) Mahmoud al Haj are schoolboy brothers from near Jenin.  Bashar is getting good marks at school and, one day, hopes to be a teacher.  His brother Ibrahim likes to play...

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Ahmed, Gaza Strip, January 2011

Ahmed lives with his parents, two brothers and three sisters in one of the refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, in a small house consisting of two rooms.  His father is unemployed.  His father became...

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The Najar Family, Nablus, January 2011

Despite their tender years, two-and-a-half-year-old Abdullah and his sister, Sundus, six, are both well know to staff at our Jerusalem Hospital.  Abdallah has been receiving treatment at the hospital...

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Mr Adel Abu El Rub, Qalandia Refugee Camp, February 2011

Mr Adel Abu El Rub is a 47 year old Palestinian, living in the Qalandia Refugee Camp between Jerusalem and Ramallah.  He is married with seven children – two boys and five girls aged between 11 and 22....

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Rama, West Bank, February 2011

Rama is a three year old girl, who was admitted to our Jerusalem Hospital for squint surgery in February.  She lives with her adoptive parents in the  West Bank.  Her father is a 46 year old casual...

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Mohammad Amro, Dura, February 2011

18 year old Mohammad Abdel Rahman Mousa Amro lives with his mother, Khoulod, three brothers and two sisters in the village of Dura, a small town located eleven kilometers southwest of Hebron in the...

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Mohammed Alkharbeesh, Gaza, March 2011

23 year old Mohammed Alkharbeesh is one the rare patients who come to us after successfully securing a permit to leave the Gaza Strip.  Mohammed has been blind in his left eye since birth.  Last year,...

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Mrs Bahijeh Fahim, Taybeh, April 2011

Mrs Bahijeh Fahim is a 63 year old Palestinian woman from the village of Taybeh, near Ramallah.  With six grown-up, married children, she acts as carerfor her grandchildren. Mrs Fahim presented at our...

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Shorouq, West Bank Bedouin Camp, May 2011

17 year old Shorouq  comes from an isolated Bedouin Camp called Masafer Bani Naim.  She lives there with her mother, father,  four brothers and four sisters. Read the rest of 'Shorouq, West Bank...

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Suliman, West Bank, June 2011

Suliman is a 13 year-old boy from the West Bank. He was brought to one of our Outreach clinics by his parents, who were worried that he seemed to have been losing vision for about six-months.Read the...

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Mohammad El Foudi, Tulkarm Refugee Camp, June 2011

21 year old Mohammad Walid El Foudi lives with his mother and father in the Tulkarm Refugee Camp in the extreme northwestern West Bank.  His father works in a coffee shop and his mother is a...

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