Health & Healing
Israeli bullet leaves Palestinian nurse paralyzed from waist down
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A 26-year-old Palestinian nurse, Mohammad Nabil Al-Mutawir, faces permanent paralysis after being shot in the back near his home in Sa'ir, a town northeast of Hebron, according to IMEMC News. Al-Mutawir was standing outside the house he had been constructing for his upcoming wedding when he sustained the gunshot wound to his spine.
Medical assessments indicate the injury has rendered him paralyzed from the waist down, with doctors warning of permanent disability. The incident marks another addition to the toll of Palestinian injuries in the occupied West Bank. Al-Mutawir's case underscores the dangers faced by civilians in areas of ongoing conflict, leaving his family to contend with both the trauma of his injury and the disruption to his planned marriage.
