Yasmine Siam, who is almost seventh months, was able to sleep, as Yasmine lives in a crowded camp in Gaza, which is constantly shaking by the Israeli bombing.
You did not find suitable food, and did not eat meat for more than a month. She was weak, lost her weight, and she went to doctors every day. They didn’t have much to do it.
On one of the nights this month, the pain was invaded. It was concerned that the labor had started, but she was so afraid of shooting so that she could not leave her tent. The lady waited until dawn to walk to the nearest mobile clinic.
The paramedics told her to go to Nasser Hospital, miles away.
The mother had to take a car cart pulled by a donkey, vibrating from every bump in the destroyed roads. The 24 -year -old found only a wall leaning on him throughout the hours of waiting for the doctor, and she was wandering.
Ultrasound showed that her child is fine. Fasting was suffering from inflammation in the urinary tract, and she was underweight: 57 kilograms (125 rugs), or 6 kilograms of (13 pounds) than previous weeks.
The doctor prescribed her medicine, and tell her what every other doctor does: eat better food.
“Where do I get food from? I am not worried about myself. I am concerned about my son. It will be terrible if you lose it. ”
High miscarriages
As Gaza is destroyed, miscarriages rise. The abortion of the disturbed fasting of fasting has become a natural matter in Gaza. The 18 -month Israeli war that destroyed the sector – has made pregnancy and childbirth more dangerous, and even a fatal risk for Palestinian women and their children, according to the agency.
The matter has worsened since March 2, when Israel has cut all the food, medicines and supplies for more than two million people in Gaza.
Fresh meat, fruits and vegetables are almost non -existent. Clean water is rare. Pregnant women cut out hundreds of thousands in search of new shelters after repeated Israeli evacuation orders. Many of them live in tents or schools crowded in wastewater and garbage.
According to the United Nations Population Fund, up to 20 percent of pregnant women in Gaza, who number 55,000 women, suffers from malnutrition, and half of them face high -risk pregnancy. In February and March, at least 20 percent of newborns were born prematurely, or suffer from complications, or malnutrition.
With the displacement of the population and their bombing, it is impossible to obtain comprehensive statistics on abortion cases, and the birth of a dead fetus. Records at Nasser Bakhn Yunis Hospital show that miscarriages in January and February were twice as much as they were in the same period in 2023.
And documented d. Yasmine Shenina, midfielder of the MSF, Nasser Hospital, 40 cases of abortion per week in recent weeks. The death of five women was recorded per month during childbirth, compared to two annual cases before the war. She said, “We do not need to wait for the future effect,” she said. The risks are now appearing. ”
Love in wartime
As for fasting and her family, her pregnancy -after a troubled marriage in wartime -was described the agency as a “rare joy”. After the family displaced from Gaza City, it moved three times before settling in the city of Khayyam, which extends through the arid coastal area.
And late last summer, she ate a meal with neighbors. It was impressed by a young man from the opposite tent.
The next day, Hossam asked Yasmine’s hand for marriage. She initially refused. She said: “I did not expect marriage in the shadow of war. I was not ready to meet anyone. ” Hossam did not surrender. Take it on a picnic on the seashore. Tell each other about their lives. She said, “I accepted.”
On September 15, the groom’s family decorated its tent. Her friends close to Gaza City, and the products throughout the Strip, watched the wedding online. Within a month, Yasmine fasting.
The expected child is considered dear to her family, so her mother had descendants from her two sons, but she was eager for a child from her two daughters. The Great Sister of fasting has been trying to get pregnant for 15 years. Her mother and sister – who are now returned to Gaza City – sent the child’s supplies.
From the beginning, fasting has suffered for proper nutrition, relying on canned food. After the ceasefire started in January, she and Hossam moved to Rafah. On February 28, she had a rare meal: a chicken, she shared with her in -laws. This was the last time you eat meat. A week later, Hossam walked to Miles looking for chicken. Empty -handed.
“Even the basics are impossible”
Israel has set a large part of Gaza on the ground in its air and land war, and the war led to the killing of more than 51,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
In Gaza, pregnancy is a tremendous conflict. It is not only about the amount of food, as Rosali Paulin, from “UNICEF”, said, “It also relates to food diversity, and the fact that they live in harsh, and unhealthy conditions, sleep on the ground, sleep in the cold, and in this permanent state of severe tension.”
Nine hospitals work out of 14 were providing mother’s health services before the war, albeit only partially, according to the United Nations Population Fund.
Given that many medical facilities have been abandoned by the war, or their having to give priority to patients with critical cases, women often do not obtain examinations that reveal problems at an early stage of pregnancy, said Katie Brown, from the Doctors Without Borders Organization.
The United Nations Population Fund notes that a quarter of birth, which is about 130 births per day in February and March, required surgeries. “Even the basics are impossible,” said Brown.
In light of the siege, more than half of the mother -in -law and newborns, including bleeding medications and stimulating labor, according to the Ministry of Health. Narrow diapers. Relief workers say that some women are used, which leads to their fluctuation, leading to acute skin infections.
“Steling Tactics”
Israel says the siege aims to pressure Hamas to release the remaining hostages. Human rights groups describe it as a “starvation tactic” that endangers all population and a possible war crime.
In the birth department of Nasser Hospital, Dr. said. Ahmed Al -Farra, things are from bad to worse. In early 2024, the Israeli forces raided the hospital, claiming that he was harboring fighters from Hamas.
Incubators were destroyed in a warehouse. The maternity department has been rebuilt to become the largest and best hospital in Gaza. Since Israel violated the two -month ceasefire on March 18, the hospital was filled with wounded.
Up to 15 children at a time, you need industrial breathing devices, but the hospital only has two continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) to keep premature infants. Some of them are placed on adult breathing devices, which often leads to death, according to vass.
According to the United Nations, there are twenty persistent positive airway pressure devices outside Gaza, unable to enter due to the siege, along with 54 ultrasound devices, nine incubators, and obstetrics.
The lack of cleaning supplies make hygiene almost impossible. After childbirth, new women and newborns who are weakened by hunger are often suffering from infections, causing long -term complications, or even death, according to vass.
Severity
Yasmine Zaqout was quickly transferred to Nasser Hospital in early April after she had two twin girls before her. One of them died within days, her sister died last week, and both of them were due to blood rot.
Before the war, Al -Farra said that he might have seen one child annually with pneumonia, a severe infection that kills lung tissues. Al -Farra said: “In this war, I treated 50 cases.” He removed parts of the lungs in nearly half of these children.
At least four of them died, adding that among the wounded are pregnant women regularly.
In a related context, Khaled Al -Sir, a surgeon at Nasser Hospital, spoke about the treatment of a fourth -month pregnant woman after an air strike on April 16. The fragments tore their womb. He said that the fetus cannot be saved, and the pregnancy will be risky for the rest of its life.
He added that two of her children were among the 10 children who were killed in the raid.
The fetus was born dead
Under the pressure of war in the sixth month of pregnancy, fasting went, and a vehicle pulled by a donkey for miles belonging to a tent in the quarrels after Israel ordered the evacuation of Rafah.
With the increase in the scarcity of food, fasting resorted to charitable kitchens, or the measures that distribute meals of rice, or pasta. After her weakness, she fell a lot. The tension -the tension in the tent, the separation from her mother, the horror of the air strikes, and the non -fruitful visits of clinics, said to the Associated Press, and she is almost pleading: “I wish a doctor tells me: Your weight is good. I always suffer from malnutrition. ”
Hours after her fear on April 9, fasting was still suffering from pain. She visited her fifth for the mobile clinic within two days. They asked her to go to her tent and rest. She started noticing bleeding. Her mother -in -law carried her while walking to a field hospital in the hollow of the night.
At three in the morning, doctors said that there is nothing that he could only wait. Her mother arrived from Gaza City. Eight hours later, the fetus was born dead.
Her mother told her not to look at the child. Her mother -in -law said it is beautiful. Her husband took their son to the grave. A few days later, her mother said that she collapsed when she saw pictures of her while she was pregnant. She does not tolerate the vision of anyone, and she refuses her husband’s suggestions to walk on the beach, where they held their marriage. You wish time to return, even for only one week.
And she says, “I will include him to my heart, hide it, and stick to it.” The bereaved lady plans to try to have another child.
