Stringer Dispatch: Gaza boy partially blinded by Israeli explosive remnant

Seven-year-old Mohammed Hijazi has been left partially blind after an Israeli explosive remnant in Gaza detonated when he picked it up. The boy, from Jabalia in northern Gaza, had survived multiple airstrikes and fled south with his family to escape Israeli bombing. One day in March, he unknowingly touched a suspicious object, which turned out to be unexploded ordnance that Israeli soldiers had left behind, the father said. The boy had one of his eyeballs removed and his other eye is at risk of atrophy without urgent medical care, which is currently unavailable in the Palestinian enclave.
"If Hamoud doesn't travel abroad very soon, he might lose his remaining eye," said his father. He is working hard to get him out of Gaza for treatment, hoping doctors can save what is left of his son's vision. He prays that little Mohammed can see the world again, even if only with one eye.