Girl with rare disease dreams of falling in love and becoming a medic

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Girl with rare disease dreams of falling in love and becoming a medic

2018-01-22 17:07 Last Updated At：17:10

No matter how unusual she may look, her happy face is universal!

American young girl Michelle Kish was born with Hallermann-Streiff syndrome, a genetic and rare disease that caused her face looked unusual.

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Kish has a small beak-like nose, a recessed chin, bilateral cataracts and frontal bossing of the forehead. She also suffered other symptoms like dwarfism, lung disease etc.

She requires round-the-clock medical care through the night and a dedicated nurse to travel with her to school. She also has to visit the hospital frequently.

But after all, she's a happy angel who is optimistic and bringing laughter to the family.

Mrs Kish praised her daughter: 'She is smart as a whip and happy as ever. She is one of the happiest 20 year olds I know. She loves herself and she really has a lot of confidence, she moves on every day with a happy heart and she makes me happy even when I'm down in the dumps.'

Kish now dreams of finding a boyfriend like her sister. She said: 'I've never had a boyfriend, but I want one, because I am already 20 and Sarah had her first boyfriend at high school.'

'I would love a boyfriend with lots of hair. I don't care about the height because pretty much everyone is taller than me!

She also dreams of becoming a medic in the future.

5-year-old and her uncle killed in airstrike in Gaza as Israel says it targeted an imminent threat

DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike in Gaza on Monday hit a tent housing displaced people, killing a 5-year-old girl and her uncle and wounding two other children, hospital officials said.

The strike took place in the Muwasi area northwest of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, officials at Nasser Hospital said. The Associated Press couldn’t independently verify those details. Family members wept over the bodies as they were brought to the hospital.

The dead are among the more than 400 people killed in Gaza since an October ceasefire began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

The Israeli military said on social media it struck a Hamas militant who planned an imminent attack on Israeli troops in the southern Gaza Strip. It said the strike complied with the ceasefire agreement, and was done in a targeted way to mitigate civilian harm.

It was not immediately clear if the statement referred to the fatal tent strike. The military also said that, because of continued ceasefire violations, it had begun striking Hezbollah and Hamas terror targets in southern and eastern Lebanon.

The strikes came a few days before Lebanon’s army commander is scheduled to brief the government on its mission of disarming Hezbollah in areas along the border with Israel.

Israel and the Lebanese militant group exchanged fire for over a year before reaching a ceasefire in November 2024. Israel continues to control small parts of Lebanese territory and has continued to carry out strikes, accusing the group of trying to rearm.

Earlier on Monday, the Gaza Health Ministry reported that two other bodies had been brought to local hospitals over the past 24 hours. The ministry, part of the Hamas-run government, said that 422 bodies have been brought to hospitals since the ceasefire went into effect on Oct. 10. The ministry maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts.

Five others were brought to hospitals with injuries over the last day, it said. They are among the 1,189 wounded since the ceasefire. Another 684 people have been found dead in the rubble strewn across Gaza during the same period.

The overall Palestinian death toll from the Israel-Hamas war rose to at least 71,388, the ministry said. Another 171,269 have been wounded, it said.

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