06 February 2025,   16:32
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Medic saved girl, 3, with bullet lodged in neck

A nurse has spoken about the moment he helped save the life of a three-year-old Palestinian girl with a bullet lodged in her neck after it had ricocheted through her mother`s body, writes BBC.

Medic David Anderson, from Rutland, spent six months last year in war-torn Gaza as part of the UK government`s humanitarian response. The 55-year-old said he could "never have imagined the horrors of war" that he witnessed.

“It`s quite frankly a miracle they survived and the bullet was lodged just millimetres from the little girl`s spinal cord", he said.

The child, three-year-old Razan, is now making a full recovery after having the 7.92mm bullet removed. "It took three hours of surgery to remove the bullet. It was only because it had gone through mum twice that the velocity had slowed sufficiently not to cause more serious damage to the child”, Mr Anderson, who was born in Scotland, said. "The family`s story was heartbreaking. They’d fled northern Gaza when their apartment was hit by an airstrike at the beginning of the war. They had to step over dead bodies as they made their way south and had been displaced three times by the time they finally reached Al Mawasi [in the south, near Khan Younis]. They thought they had found safety... but they were wrong".

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