Seba Is Walking Again. Here’s What Your Support Is Building for Every Child Like Her.

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Seba is 13. She lost both legs and her father in the bombings in Gaza. Today, she is walking on prosthetics in the United States.

This is what this community has made possible.

Seba’s recovery did not come from a single surgery. It came from a chain that had to hold at every link: an evacuation, specialized treatment abroad that did not exist at home, prosthetic fittings, and months of rehabilitation, with HEAL Palestine alongside her family through all of it. Break any link and a thirteen-year-old does not walk.

That is the difference between relief and recovery. Relief keeps a child alive through the worst day of their life. Recovery carries them through every day after it. HEAL Palestine was built to do the second thing, and it rests on four pillars: health, education, aid, and leadership. Seba’s story runs through all four, and so does the work your support is expanding across Gaza right now.

Health. Because of you, we are evacuating more critically injured children from Gaza to Spain, Portugal, and Mexico, opening pathways to surgeons, prosthetists, and rehabilitation specialists no longer reachable inside the Strip. But no child should have to leave their country to be healed. So we are building that capacity at home. A new trauma center is opening in northern Gaza. A new rehabilitation center is being sponsored. Together with our field hospital and two medical clinics already operating in Gaza, they form something Gaza has lost almost entirely: a path that carries a patient from the moment of injury through to the day they walk out.

Aid. Medicine fails in a place where the water is contaminated and the nights are freezing. So we are drilling wells in displacement camps where families have nothing safe to drink, serving thousands of daily hot meals to households with no way to cook, and moving clothing, blankets, and tents into camps before winter arrives. This is the ground everything else has to stand on.

Education. Gaza’s children have lost years of school to war and displacement. Thousands are now back in classrooms through our schools and programs, because a generation that survives without an education inherits a future it cannot rebuild.

Leadership. This is the pillar that answers the question the others raise: healed for what, educated for what. Gaza’s orphaned children and child amputees are in programs built around who they are rather than what happened to them, designed to return them to their communities with the confidence and capability to lead. Every child we send abroad for care, we send with the intention of bringing home.