Child victims of war get treated on LI
Photo credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr. | From left, Zeenabdeen Hadi, Sajiad Lafta and Sajiad Shakir help a new patient, Malak Elshami, adjust to the Ronald McDonald House. (July 28, 2011)
The missile, fired by troops loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, exploded in her bedroom May 13, severing one of her legs and killing her two siblings .
On Thursday, 5-year-old Malak Elshami arrived at a Long Island guesthouse with her father. In the house with her were a half-dozen other children who had been wounded in war zones around the world, including Zeenabdeen Hadi, a 4-year-old...
A second chance for child victims of war
Timeline of Zeenabdeen Hadi's surgeries on LI