More than a thousand children in Gaza have had a limb amputated since the war began, and Alaa al-Dali is racing for every one of them.
More than a thousand children in Gaza have had one or more limbs amputated since the war began in October - and Paralympic hopeful Alaa al-Dali is racing for every single one of them, ITV News Correspondent Rachel Younger reportsOvercoming adversity is second nature to every Paralympian.
Alaa al-Dali, an Olympic hopeful before he lost a leg in 2019, has not given up on his sporting dreams.More than a thousand children in Gaza have had one or more limbs amputated since the war began in October, according to the UN and Alaa is racing for every one of them. One of the supporters lining the route is four-year-old Ahmad Shabbat, who arrived in Italy last month to have prosthetics fitted, after losing his legs in an Israeli airstrike six months ago.
Since he left Gaza to travel to Europe, his children and their mother have been displaced from their home in Rafah and are now trying to survive in a camp where aid supplies are dwindling fast.
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