A wounded Palestinian child cries upon arrival in Abu Dhabi after being evacuated from Gaza (Giuseppe CACACE)
Clutching a blown-up surgical glove as a makeshift toy, a Palestinian child is stretchered onto a plane to Abu Dhabi -– one of the Gaza war’s first evacuees to the United Arab Emirates for urgent medical treatment.
In the dead of night at Egypt’s El Arish airport, near the Rafah border crossing from Gaza, the child is carried carefully from the back of one of six yellow ambulances waiting near the runway, blue lights flashing.
A hydraulic platform lifts the wheeled stretchers into…
