Heart-rending moment one-armed Gaza orphan, five, arrives in the US for medical treatment with his aunt after his parents, siblings and grandparents were killed in airstrike

Heartbreaking footage captured the moment a one-armed orphan from Gaza broke down in tears as he arrived in the US for medical treatment.

Omar Abukwaik, 5, suffered serious injuries, including the loss of his arm, in an Israeli airstrike that killed his family and grandparents in December.

After receiving emergency care in Egypt, Omar’s aunt was able to transport him to America through her charity, the Global Medical Relief Fund, where he will undergo a number of further operations, including fitting a prosthetic arm.

She spoke of helping him about the horrors he survived CBS News: ‘These are innocent children who have absolutely no resources.’

He is among thousands of Palestinian refugees displaced by the ongoing Israeli-Hamas conflict, with a new immigration law issued this month by President Biden halting the deportation of more than 6,000 people, according to the New York Times.

The five-year-old suffered serious injuries, including the loss of his arm in an Israeli airstrike that killed his entire family (pictured) and grandparents in December.

Although the child miraculously survived the airstrike, he suffered serious injuries to his face, leg and arm and has undergone a number of surgeries and skin grafts.

The little boy flew from Cairo to New York’s JFK airport this week after his aunt Elissa Montanti cut through the red tape to get him the emergency health care he needed.

His entire family was killed in an airstrike on Gaza in December, when Israel launched its counter-offensive against Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attacks.

Human rights organizations have condemned the high number of civilian casualties in Gaza, including more than 7,000 children, as a result of the airstrikes, including the impact on families like Omar’s.

While his mother, father, grandparents and two young siblings were killed, Omar miraculously survived but suffered serious injuries, including leg wounds, burns and the amputation of his left arm.

He initially received emergency care in Cairo, Egypt, where he will return in a few weeks, but he still required further trauma treatment.

Thanks to his aunt’s charity, Omar was able to be seen by US healthcare specialists on the East Coast, while also experiencing some brief childhood moments, such as experiencing snow for the first time.

While he is about to return to Egypt, Omar’s stay in America gave him the chance to enjoy his youth again – as he is pictured experiencing snow for the first time

His aunt Elissa Montanti (pictured), director of the Global Medical Relief Fund, said: ‘It’s just important, very important, to empower a child who has had so much taken from him’

Montanti said her charity has helped similarly affected children from more than 60 countries suffering from war or natural disasters.

For her nephew, she worked with Shriners Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia to facilitate his care, and the five-year-old is being fitted for a prosthetic arm.

One of his doctors told CBS News, “The fact that Omar was able to be brought here is good for Omar.”

“If he stayed in Gaza or Egypt, who knows,” he continued. “I don’t know what would have happened.”

Omar’s recovery is expected to take several weeks, with his aunt praising how the US was able to provide medical treatment for the injured child.

“It’s very important and it’s empowering,” Montanti said.

‘You give them back their youth when they are so little, and their integrity. It’s just important, very important, to give strength to a child who has had so much taken from him.”

But before he crossed the Atlantic again, his aunt gave him one last chance to be a kid in America as he enjoyed a day out at a children’s museum.

The child’s aid comes as Israel has continued its siege of Gaza, with four women and a child under eight injured in another airstrike on Sunday.

People gather in front of a building destroyed during the Rafah airstrike on February 24. At least eight people were killed.

Palestinians help an injured man after the bombing in Rafah. Four women and a child were reportedly killed

Hamas claims IDF attacks have killed 92 Palestinians in the past 24 hours.

It was also reported that in almost five months of the war the total death toll rose to 29,606 and the total number of wounded rose to almost 70,000.

The figure comes from the Ministry of Health in Hamas-ruled Gaza, which does not distinguish between civilians and fighters. It says two-thirds of the dead were children and women.

Meanwhile, Israel claimed its forces have killed more than 10,000 Hamas fighters but provided no details.

There are still more than a hundred hostages in Gaza.