Cairo – Sarah Al-Avad says she is sitting with her family on the morning of October 22, 2024 in their tent with the Empire in Al-Kawida of Kentron Gaza tape In the event that the displaced Palestinians received asylum when he hit the Israeli quadruped bullet on his head.

“Suddenly I felt pain in my head, as I told CBS News this week the 18-year-old beast. “My family started shouting,” bullet, bullet. ” Everyone was in a state of panic, and they took me to me and hurried me to Shuhada al-Axa Hospital. “

CBS News has asked the Israeli defense forces Reported on small-armed drones In Gaza and Al-Avadia's claim, in particular, he strike one of the weapons of the camp for the displaced civilians. There was no idf reaction at the time of publication.

Doctors did what they could have had Destruction in GazaHomas More than a year later, in 2023. The terrorist attack on October 7 caused a war in Palestine. They could see that the bullet was introduced in the skull of Al-Avadi, the right eye, but they did not have the ability to remove them.

After all, Al-Abvadi said that the doctors of Gaza could not do anything, but he refused to give up hope and claim to stay in the hospital. In any case, he thought that his bad wounded eye in the hospital would be protected from dusty conditions at his family's vaccination house.

Thus, he stayed, relying on painkillers to overcome the pain of his head, but without any vision assistance.

In early November, Al-Avadi saw the children of the children's children, who visited the European Hospital near Khan Yow in the south of Khan Yonis. Egyptian Dr. Mohamed Tephfik was among the volunteers, and when he saw Al-Occad, he thought about someone he believed.

Tabfik called his father, veteran ophthalmologist to get his medical opinion.

Dr. Ahmed Tephfik, Elder Doctor, said CBS News, he wants to go to Gaza to try to help the young woman, but she closed the passage of the Rafah border between the enclave and Egypt.

“I followed this job almost every day. I felt this was my job, “Tabfik said.

But he could not find a way to go to Gaza, and when the war was furious, Israel was very little allowed to leave the enclave for treatment.

The doctor's son returned to Egypt, and Al-Avadi told CBS News, he began to give hope. During the month, he said that he was afraid that he would constantly intimidate his eyesight in his right sight.

“I have applied for treatment abroad as many others. When people asked me, “How long have you been waiting?” I would say a month. They would say to me. “Forget that, we waited a lot longer.”

Finally, a glow of hope, about three months after the bullet in the head of Al-Avadia, with rumors that Israel and Hamas have had agreed on a ceasefire Dealing. It came into force from 19 to 2024. On January 19, Al-Avadi was able to return to his home in the north of Gaza.

He said he had been relieved of his family's house in several buildings saved from destruction. He stayed there for a week until the evening of February 8, he received a call from the World Health Organization, saying that the next day he will leave for Egypt.

“There is no electricity, so I literally packed my luggage with candlelight vigil,” he recalled. Only his mother was allowed to travel with him, but the couple reached Egypt the next day, as planned.

He was first sent to the city of Port on the coast of the Egyptian Mediterranean. A week later, Dr. Tabfik managed to be taken to the hospital where he works in Al-Sharkia's governor in Nile Delta.

Three teams: ophthalmology, neurosurgery and radiology – worked together, debate the best approach to the “Al-Avadian Optical Nerve” months.

“We are doing some simulations to avoid the optical nerve,” Dr. Mohamed Khaled Shavk told CBS News. He helped the operation be guided remotely at a separate institution through a video ring.

“The bullet landed in the best possible place for the patient, but the worst place for the medical team,” Shavark told CBS News. “If it is moved in any direction of a millimeter, it will bring great damage.”

Doctors agreed the best option was to try to get into a bullet, entering the plug of the eye of Al-Avadia to avoid damaging his brain.

Tavfik was straight, saying that Al-Avad had a 50% chance of success, and he could have completely losing his eye or to have his vision.

“I cried. I was very scared, but I prayed and accepted the risk, “he said to CBS News.

“His amazing medical team tried to improve my spirit, making me psychologically ready, and they did it with joy.

The operation was performed last week, and it was a success. Tabfick said to CBS News that he was surprised by the amount of infection and absence of the bullet, which overtooked the head of Al-Avadia.

Even with the bullet, Al-Ovad is not completely out of the woods.

“Three hours later, I opened my eyes, and they said to me that God had done well because of God,” he recalled. “I started crying again.”

“He is very stable now, and he takes his Meds and improves,” Takfik told CBS News. “My goal was to end the pain caused by infection and the second to maintain its current level of vision. I hope his vision will improve. “

The eye of the young woman will never look or see the same way when it did before she was shot.

Like many Palestinians, they made it from Gaza to receive desperately necessary medical care, Al-Avadi said the news that his joy is incomplete. He misses the rest of his family with whom he had to leave.

Asked the rusty bullet, who was four months old with a rusty bullet in his head, he said he planned to keep it.

“I think about framing it,” he said to CBS News.