Two fathers have young daughters with the same neurological disease.
Separated by an ocean and a war, the two fathers have never met, but are now speaking with each other as often as possible, sometimes several times a day, bonded by love for their daughters.
At 8 years old, Annabel has a hard time walking and talking. She has an aide with her at school. A few times a week, Annabel has episodes of reduced consciousness, which her father describes as similar to seizures. During those episodes, her family or caregiver rushes her to a dark room to administer medication and hope it passes.
He explained how his daughter used to experience episodes of paralysis once every few weeks, normally impacting one side of her body or the other but lasting less than a day. Since the conflict began, however, the family has had limited access to medicine and food. The living conditions as well as the constant stress and noise of the violence, had left Julia in a state of almost total paralysis for months.
Julia Abu Zaiter has a rare neurological disease with symptoms made worse by limited access to food and water and stimulus from the war."With the Rafah border closed, there are no, absolutely no medications, no aid, no people going in or out, because the Israeli army has completely seized the Rafah border.
The family had a stroller and a car, but still with hundreds of thousands also forced to evacuate Rafah in the last few days, Abu Zaiter said they had to physically carry Julia for much of the miles-long journey.
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