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A typical late afternoon for 4-year-old Adam is much like a typical late afternoon for any child his age: snacks, “Cocomelon” on YouTube, blocks, jumping off the stairs, resisting a bath.

But unlike most toddlers, Adam lives with a host family thousands of miles away from his hometown in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. His parents were killed, his siblings, too. He also jumps off the stairs with just one leg, not two.

Adam is one of six children temporarily living in the Chicago area after being medically evacuated by Heal Palestine , an organization founded in response to the destruction caused in Gaza by Israel’s response to the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by militant group Hamas. All of the children are amputees, with most of them sta

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