Two critically injured Palestinian children and their families arrived in the Bay Area on Wednesday for long-term treatment as part of what organizers call the largest single medical evacuation of injured children from Gaza to the United States.

Dozens of supporters — some wearing keffiyehs, others holding Palestinian flags or balloons — gathered at San Francisco International Airport ’s arrivals hall to welcome Ghazal, 6, Layan, 14, and their families following a monthslong evacuation effort from their homes or shelters in Gaza.

Ghazal was injured in an explosion after being displaced from her home in Rafah, a southern city where many Palestinians fled to avoid bombardments in the north. Layan was burned and hit with shrapnel in the bombing of a school.

A third child, Anas, 8, arri

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