Moroccan-Palestinian Survivor of Gaza Attacks Returns Home After Months of Treatment

Ibrahim arrived at Mohammed V International Airport in Casablanca from Doha, after spending months in hospitals in Khan Younis in Palestine, El Arish and Cairo in Egypt, then in Qatar. The life of the young man, a nursing student at a university in Gaza, changed on October 17, 2023, after a missile fell on him, amputating both his legs and his right hand. "My life was wonderful, and I had ambitions like any young person in the world, but the war destroyed everything. The occupation bombed all the universities, destroyed our dreams and our future," he told Al3omk.

The survivor spent several hours between life and death, under the rubble of his house in the Gaza Strip, before being found by rescuers. Ibrahim was urgently transported to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, where he underwent surgical procedures. But the Moroccan would not have survived without the intervention of King Mohammed VI, who ordered to facilitate his evacuation from Gaza so that he could receive adequate care abroad. He therefore thanked the Sovereign upon his return to Morocco.

"I thank His Majesty King Mohammed VI from the bottom of my heart, because without him, I would not be alive today. His intervention and the support of the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs contributed to my evacuation from Gaza to El Arish, then Cairo, and from there to Qatar where prostheses were installed for me, and I am now trying to resume a quasi-normal life," said Ibrahim, who expressed his wish to meet the monarch to "personally thank him for all he has done for me and for the Palestinian people," as well as his "joy of returning to Morocco after all [he] has been through."

Ibrahim "has returned with a story of resilience and firmness, like all the children of the Palestinian people in the face of this war and this injustice," said Marah Qudaih, Ibrahim’s sister, expressing her joy at finding her brother alive, and her sadness at seeing him with amputated limbs. Marah did not fail to thank King Mohammed VI for his "humanitarian support" towards Ibrahim, as well as the Moroccan people "for their great solidarity with us." The king "has proven that Morocco is our second country, and his position is honorable in all respects," she concluded.