Arab News from Gaza: Burned children wait for masks MSF cannot make

GAZA: Rital Halawa’s mask was made to heal her. Pressed against her burned face, it is meant to protect the skin as her wounds close. Now, her mother says, it is too small.

“The pressure mask is hurting her. It’s choking her neck because it’s small and tight,” Samar Halawa told Arab News.

The family was in northern Gaza when Rital was injured. “A quadcopter came and dropped a bomb on the place where my daughter was,” her mother said. “The place caught fire, and so did she.”

Rital is one of the patients treated by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), whose team in Gaza make bespoke face masks using 3D scanning and printing.