Louisville community members step in to help a boy from Gaza who lost a leg

By Amina Elahi

Published August 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM EDT

When a boy from Gaza needed a prosthetic limb, after losing part of a leg in a bombing, people in Louisville, KY came together to make it possible.

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