Posted on 12/12/2023 3:34:48 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The birth of their daughter should have marked the beginning of a joyful chapter for the young Palestinian couple.
Instead, the devastating war in Gaza, now in its third month, has turned childbirth and parenthood into a time of worry and fear for Salim and Israa al-Jamala.
First, they endured a perilous journey, dodging missile fire, to reach a maternity ward. And now, the couple is sheltering with their newborn in the partially tented courtyard of another hospital where they can’t care properly for their now 3-week-old daughter, her mother’s namesake.
His wife’s breast milk is not sufficient because she cannot eat enough as a result of widespread food shortages, said the 29-year-old Salim, rocking baby Israa, swaddled in blankets in a crib cobbled together from wood scraps. Baby formula and medicine for the infant’s persistent cough are not available and in any case not affordable.
The war, triggered by a deadly Oct. 7 Hamas assault on southern Israel, has unleashed unimaginable destruction, with more than 18,000 Palestinians killed and close to 50,000 wounded in Israel’s offensive, according to health officials in Hamas-run Gaza. The initial Hamas attack killed about 1,200 people in Israel, most of them civilians.
Amid the devastation, about 5,500 births are expected over the next month, out of an estimated 50,000 women in Gaza who are currently pregnant, according to the World Health Organization.
Yet the health sector is close to collapse, with two-thirds of Gaza’s 36 hospitals now out of service. The 12 remaining health facilities are only partially operational. Even in the functioning hospitals, doctors report a lack of basic medicines and the kind of equipment needed to treat newborns, including ventilators, formula milk and disinfectant.
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This is me not giving a damn about anyone in Gaza.
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Just get HAMass to surrender, disarm, disband and all in Gaza to renounce Jihad.
Problem solved!
Double Dittos.
Better odds than a baby shoved in an oven.
And who’s fault is that?
Obviously killing Jews is more important than the health of their terrorist offspring.
What about the newborns in Israel that were murdered?
Bad things happen when you start a war.
Tough Shiite.
Yeah, I’m sure newborns in Nazi Germany had it rough in 1945, too.
Well. Next time maybe don’t kill people dancing on holiday.
Today’s newborn is tomorrow’s murder rapist jihadist terrorist.
AP is doing its job of promoting the “civilian” human shields of Hamas.
And recall again that Hamas is the democratically elected political leadership by those in Gaza
Perhaps Salim and Israa al-Jamala should not have crawled in bed with a bunch of terrorists. Yeah, yeah, I know! These are the exceptions in gasa! The rest are terrorists or terrorist sympathizers but not them!
Better parachute in some planned parenthood troops. They’ll see to the baby “problem”.
The World does not not need more Jihadi babies.
Dec. 12, 2023
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