00:007-year-old Sham's father checks her scars every day.
00:06How is your foot now?
00:08It hurts.
00:09Doesn't it hurt a little or a lot?
00:11A lot.
00:12Husni Saeed Altawil is not a medic.
00:14He's just a worried dad.
00:17Sham and her family stayed in several places in Gaza
00:21before they finally got out two months ago and came to Bucharest.
00:28The children are suffering psychologically.
00:31Since the war, they're so scared.
00:33They don't even want to go to the toilet alone.
00:36I have to be with them all the time.
00:40An Israeli airstrike did this to their home a year ago, Husni says.
00:46They survived, but 52 members of their extended family
00:50in the neighborhood were killed.
00:54We had just started eating when suddenly we found ourselves in another world.
00:59The explosion was really strong and loud,
01:02and all the dust and the ceiling collapsed on us.
01:07Sham suffered severe injuries.
01:10The medical care available in Gaza was not enough,
01:14and her wounds deteriorated.
01:17It got so bad that Sham was allowed to leave.
01:23Her siblings and father could go too, but their mother had to stay behind.
01:29Husni says Israel wouldn't give her permission.
01:34Here in Romania, medics are trying to make up for lost time.
01:39Orthopedic doctor Ioan Fodor removed pieces of shrapnel from her leg,
01:44something, he says, should have been done right away.
01:49The risk is if there's an infection, it won't heal properly,
01:52and that would mean another operation, and you'd have to remove pieces of bone.
01:57If the infection spreads and the bone deteriorates again,
02:00the risk is we won't be able to do anymore.
02:04The worst case scenario, he tells me, would be amputation of Sham's leg.
02:10Husni says he wants to remain positive,
02:13but that being on his own and the uncertainty make things overwhelming.
02:21It's really hard for me to take care of my children properly,
02:25and I really, really hope that their mother can come from Gaza.
02:30Then they would feel life is good again, feel safe, and be psychologically stable.
02:38They are all desperate to hear her voice, to know she is OK.
02:47Your mom's not answering. She doesn't have Internet.
02:51But try again.
02:53She is not answering.
03:00He tells the children their mother's silence is because of power cuts,
03:05but he doesn't really know why she didn't answer.
03:10Their days in Bucharest are dominated by her absence.
03:14They don't want to miss her and worry about her.
03:17The last time they spoke, she told them it was cold in Gaza
03:21and the wind had blown parts of her tent away.
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