7-year-old girl critically injured by Iranian missile is discharged from hospital
Child hurt in March 21 strike on Arad is in good condition after series of surgeries, will continue recovery at home; ‘We watched our daughter fight for her life,’ says her father
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A 7-year-old girl who was critically injured in a March 21 Iranian missile strike in Arad has been discharged from Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petah Tikva, the hospital said in a statement Thursday.
The statement quoted the girl’s father thanking the hospital staff, which, he said, “didn’t give up on her for a moment.”
“We’ve endured moments that words cannot describe,” the father said. “We watched our daughter fight for her life.”
The girl was hit in the stomach by glass shards from a window that shattered when a ballistic missile made direct impact in Arad, wounding over 100 people in the southern city.
She arrived at Schneider in critical condition with extensive bleeding and damage to her liver, the hospital said.
It was “a complex, multi-system injury with immediate life-threatening consequences,” said Dr. Michael Gurvitz, director of the Schneider Liver Transplant Unit, who operated on the girl.
After a series of surgeries, the girl was discharged several days ago in good condition, and will continue her recovery at home, the hospital said.
Iran fired missiles and drones across the region after the US and Israel launched a bombing campaign on the Islamic Republic on February 28 in a bid to destabilize its regime and destroy its ballistic missile and nuclear programs.
By the time a ceasefire began on April 8, Iran had launched some 650 ballistic missiles at Israel, killing 20 Israeli civilians and and foreign nationals in Israel, as well as four Palestinians in the West Bank.
More than 7,000 people in Israel were injured, according to the Health Ministry.
The strike on Arad came less than two hours after another Iranian missile made direct impact in the nearby city of Dimona, wounding dozens.
Iranian state media said at the time that the strikes targeted Israel’s nuclear research facility — some 10 kilometers (six miles) outside Dimona and 30 kilometers (18.5 miles) outside Arad — in retaliation for an attack on Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility earlier in the day.
Iran had blamed the Natanz attack on the US and Israel, though the IDF denied any involvement.
Emanuel Fabian contributed to this report.
The Times of Israel Community.