Scots nurse helped save child in Gaza with bullet in neck

Mr Anderson was stationed in a field hospital in the Gazan town of al-Mawasi when he met three-year-old Razan.

Her family had fled from Northern Gaza after their apartment was hit by an air strike at the beginning of the war in October 2023.

They had been displaced three times before they reached al-Mawasi.

Mr Anderson said: “They thought they had found safety, but they were wrong.”

A bullet passed through the family’s makeshift tent, through her mother’s hip and breast, before becoming lodged in Razan’s neck.

He said: “It was only because it had gone through mum twice that the velocity had slowed sufficiently not to cause more serious damage to the child.”

After three hours of surgery, the 7.92mm bullet was removed.

Razan and her mother are now making a full physical recovery.