First Lady Emine Erdoğan, wife of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, visited 16 children brought to Türkiye from Gaza and treated in Ankara Etlik City Hospital. Emine Erdoğan, who came to the Children's Hospital where the patients were treated, was accompanied by Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca, Etlik City Hospital Coordinator Chief Physician Assoc. Prof. Bülent Güngörer and Children's Hospital Chief Physician Assoc. Prof. Ferit Kulalı and the doctors. Emine Erdoğan, who took care of the children one by one, received detailed information about the children's health conditions from their doctors. Asking the relatives of the patients about the tragedy they experienced in Gaza and the conditions of other family members, Emine Erdoğan hugged the relatives of the patients and wished them a quick recovery. Emine Erdoğan, who was touched by the situation of some children, held the children in better health conditions and played with them. First Lady Emine Erdoğan also visited Retal Ashour, a 9-year-old girl from Gaza who is known for saying "I can't feel my legs", and learned from her doctors that her leg would heal. "A little girl" song from a sick Palestinian child A 6-year-old girl named Zaina Jarbou, who lost her mother and sister in the Israeli attacks in Gaza and is being treated in the hospital, sang the song "A little girl" to First Lady Emine Erdoğan. The song says, "I was a little Palestinian girl/ I was at the age of a rose/ I had a good heart and good intentions. I wasn't harming anyone/ I knew my home and my place/ My family was around me. I had everything I wanted. We were living in love/ A few terrorists came to our country/ They killed my father and took my brother away." They said, "This place is ours now. This made me cry a lot." "I will also follow the next process" First Lady Erdoğan noted the following about the visit on her social media account: "Seeing that the Palestinian children, who are treated in Ankara Etlik City Hospital, are safe and well renewed our hopes. I received information from the doctors about their health conditions. I will also follow the next process. I wish a quick recovery for all of them. I demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire, and provision of humanitarian aid for all the innocent Palestinian children struggling to survive in Gaza under blockade, with all my heart."
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