An 11-year-old boy from Gaza — who survived a devastating Israeli air strike that killed his father and all nine of his siblings — has been flown to Italy for critical medical treatment.
The child, named Adam and accompanied by his mother (a pediatrician) and other relatives, landed at Milan’s Linate Airport.
From there, he was transferred to Niguarda Hospital, where Italian medical teams were ready to tend to his severe injuries — including multiple fractures, nerve damage, the amputation of a hand, and serious burns resulting from the strike on the family’s home in Khan Younis on May 23.
His evacuation was part of a broader humanitarian effort: three special transport flights operated by the Italian Air Force carried a total of 31 injured or sick children — along with their family members (about 114 people overall) — from Gaza to Italy, as part of what has become the largest such medical evacuation since the start of 2024.
The evacuated minors suffer from a range of dire conditions, including amputations, serious wounds, head trauma, brain hemorrhages, and illnesses that Gaza’s damaged and overwhelmed health system cannot adequately treat.
Italian officials and humanitarian organizations have described the operation as a moral and humanitarian duty. The involvement of the foreign ministry, defence forces, civil-protection agencies, hospitals across several Italian regions, and global health partners underscores the coordinated international effort to respond to Gaza’s dire medical crisis.
The case of Adam, and that of many other children evacuated from Gaza, has drawn international attention — highlighting both the terrible human cost of the ongoing war and the urgent need for expanded humanitarian corridors and medical aid for civilians, especially children, caught in the conflict.
