Gaza Strip — A young Palestinian boy has permanently lost vision in one eye after being struck by an Israeli soldier at a military checkpoint in Gaza, according to family testimony reported by Quds News Network.
The child, identified as Mohammed al-Jarjawi, was separated from his father for a few moments while the family was passing through an Israeli checkpoint during a forced evacuation from the area around the Indonesian Hospital. According to relatives, a female Israeli soldier struck the boy in the forehead with her rifle during the crossing, causing severe damage to his eyesight.
Diagnosis and Aftermath
Mohammed was later taken to hospital, where doctors informed the family that he had lost sight in one eye entirely, while vision in the other remains severely impaired. The family says the incident was not only a physical trauma but a turning point in the child’s life: he now avoids playing with other children and shies away from group or school settings, preferring to stay close to his father instead.
Mohammed’s family says he hopes to receive treatment and eventually be fitted with a prosthetic eye.
A Wider Pattern of Harm to Children
The report situates the boy’s injury within the broader humanitarian toll of the war on Gaza, which has forced more than 2.4 million Palestinians to live under systematic displacement, destruction and food insecurity, alongside sweeping military control and hundreds of documented attacks on civilians. Aid workers and rights monitors have repeatedly flagged the compounding physical and psychological toll on Gaza’s children amid the collapse of healthcare infrastructure and repeated waves of forced displacement.
