CAIRO/GAZA, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The excruciating burns run around the side of Masa Yassin's tiny face, behind her ear, over her scalp and down her neck.
Since her family's tent burst into flames when a nearby cooking gas tank exploded in July, part of the 6-year-old girl's treatment has been a clear plastic 3D-printed mask, which helps manage swelling and control the scars on her face.
But soon she will outgrow it, and the international medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, which operates the only clinic in Gaza that can make her a new one, says it has been barred by Israel from importing the plastic.
"Should there be no masks, my daughter will grow more scar tissue," said Masa's mother Islam Yassin, as she gently adjusted straps on the mask of the girl on her lap on a plastic chair in their tent in a camp in Gaza City.
"We would have to resort to surgery instead of masks, and there are no such surgeries in Gaza."
More than a year since a ceasefire halted major fighting in Gaza, the entire population of more than 2 million Palestinians lives confined to around a third of the tiny enclave's territory, mainly in makeshift tents and damaged buildings.
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