Girl, 7, is discharged from hospital months after being injured in Iran’s attack

The 7-year-old girl who was the only person in Israel who sustained significant injuries in Iran’s direct rocket and drone attack on April 14 is discharged from Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.

Amina Hassouna was injured in the head when shrapnel from an intercepted ballistic missile fell directly on her family’s home in the Bedouin town of Al-Fura, near Arad, in the southern Negev region.

She was hospitalized in Soroka with a severe and complex head injury. A multidisciplinary team stabilized her condition; she later underwent a series of neurosurgeries in collaboration with other departments in the medical center.

Hassouna’s head injury was “severe, complex and devastating,” says Dr. Miki Gideon, head of pediatric neurosurgery at Soroka, who operated on the girl during her prolonged hospitalization. “However, there was no doubt that we would fight for her life, and with great joy and the efforts of all the teams, we succeeded in our mission.”

Gideon says that seeing Hassouna “fully conscious, communicating and smiling” fills “our hearts with hope and strengthens our hands.”