After nine months of Israeli bombings in Gaza, Women who have given birth in the midst of an Israeli invasion and in an apocalyptic scenario in the Gaza StripThese women suffer from food shortages, so much so that 76% suffer from anemia, 55% of infants have illnesses and cannot breastfeed, and 99% of pregnant women have had difficulty obtaining necessary nutrients and supplements.

This is the case of Ola al-Kurd, who was saved the first time, but the second time was too much. However, it seems that she held on just long enough to save her little one. She was killed in an Israeli attack when she was only 25 years old, but doctors they managed to keep their baby alive.

It is a tragedy but also the daily life of pregnant women in the Gaza Strip where, after almost 9 months of the Israeli war, Nearly 50,000 babies have already been bornAnd women like Dareen, cradling her baby, tell us how an Israeli bomb forced her to leave her shelter, she began to bleed and decided to go to the hospital.

Despite the danger, she is privileged to be able to remain in her hospital bed. Soraida Hussein, from the Alliance for Solidarity in Palestine, says that she is told that “many women They give birth by Caesarean section without anesthesia and after a few hours they are forced to leave their beds for war wounded” because “there is no room.”

The conditions before and after pregnancy are not exactly ideal. Sabine, a displaced mother in southern Gaza, explains that “There is no water, no food, no place to protect your child.“He is only seven days old and he is a child of war.”

There are many babies in the incubator whose life depends on that thread of light which sometimes fades away. Like them, almost 76% of pregnant women in Gaza suffer from anemia, half of them cannot breastfeed their children, but perhaps the worst thing is the fear, fear of being killed on the way to the hospital.

This has skyrocketed the number of self-inductions at the birth. Mai, a first-time mother, also recounts “the bomb exploded in the hospital just as she was giving birth and the doctors went to attend to the wounded and they left therewith the placenta still inside and her child bruised by the cold.” A situation that worsens with the passage of time and they, by trying to be mothers, they pay too high a price.