For Abeer Hassan, taking care of her autistic son, Abdallah, has been perilous amid Israeli bombardment, displacement.
Revealed On 28 Sep 2025
Amid relentless compelled Palestinian displacement in Gaza beneath intense Israeli bombardment, taking good care of kids with particular wants turns into much more perilous.
Abeer Hassan, taking care of her autistic son, Abdallah, in Deir el-Balah, says the fixed Israeli explosions terrify him.
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“Because the folks began fleeing the world, we have been additionally urged to depart,” Hassan advised Al Jazeera.
“Abdallah used to look at automobiles full of displaced households fleeing. He would come again to the tent very tense and nervous, and utilizing signal language,” she added.
Hassan defined that they first reached a displaced camp referred to as Ameera, which was full and had no area for his or her tent.
“Later, they advised us to hunt a spot close to Salah al-Din Avenue, regardless of the hazard. My daughters and I have been crying and Abdallah was getting tense and began making bizarre sounds. The scorching warmth is an excessive amount of and we don’t know the place to go,” she stated.

Since Israel’s warfare on Gaza started in October 2023, the military has issued a number of compelled evacuation orders for Palestinians dwelling within the besieged enclave, typically telling them to maneuver to the southern al-Mawasi space, which has been designated a so-called “protected zone”.
Nonetheless, al-Mawasi has additionally come beneath repeated assault by Israel, as has the exodus of Palestinians fleeing Gaza Metropolis to an unknown destiny additional south.
For Abdallah, the unending orders and sounds of bombardments imply he spends more often than not roaming the streets and has developed a brand new behavior of pulling his hair. His household reduce his hair brief to cease him tearing at it.
“I started giving him prescribed sleeping drugs once more, to cease him from going outdoors throughout the warmth. There’s nothing else I can do to assist him. I found that my cell phone was damaged two days earlier than we have been displaced; my telephone was the one means to maintain him calm with cellular video games and movies,” Hassan defined.
“We have been all beneath immense strain … younger and outdated. At one level, I requested God to take our lives collectively so Abdallah wouldn’t be alone. Not every little thing he wants is obtainable right here,” she pleaded.
Within the practically two years of intense assaults, Israeli raids have killed a minimum of 66,005 folks and wounded 168,162, Gaza’s Well being Ministry reported on Sunday.