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'I kept on saying goodbye': Gaza hospital reports rise in stillbirths and neonatal deaths
NBC News | Comcast ^ | April 4, 2024 | By Chantal Da Silva (D-NBC)

Posted on 04/04/2024 3:54:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

TEL AVIV — When Mai Kamal Zaqout learned she was pregnant in December, she and her husband, Ahmad, felt something they hadn’t experienced in many weeks in Gaza: happiness — a glimmer of optimism amid the war’s devastation and despair.

Zaqout, 22, said Ahmad placed his hand on her belly and told her: “This is it. She is our last hope.”

But within months, that hope was shattered.

Ahmad, 29, was killed in an airstrike.

Then Zaqout fled south to Rafah, where more than a million people have sought refuge, in hopes of giving birth to her daughter in safety.

But Zaqout fell ill, weak from a lack of food and clean drinking water. Already grieving, she received another devastating blow seven months into her pregnancy: Her baby no longer had a heartbeat.

“I didn’t understand. I started crying and screaming,” she told an NBC News crew on the ground late last month. “All of the hospital gathered,” she said, asking, “‘What’s wrong with her? Why is she crying?’”

“I started saying, ‘Check again. Make sure,’” she said.

Her baby was stillborn in March.

Doctors in Gaza and humanitarian groups told NBC News that Zaqout is one of a growing number of women who have lost pregnancies or had complications, another dire consequence of the war.

“The doctors told me malnutrition had a big role in this,” Zaqout said. “I was not able to eat properly. I didn’t take vitamins. There was nothing available. … The water was polluted. I was feeling it.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 04/04/2024 3:54:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Propaganda


2 posted on 04/04/2024 3:56:12 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just feed them all those crazy drugs they gave the rapists and murderers for use when attacking innocent Israelis.

They won’t be complaining, any longer, and when they come to, maybe half will still be alive.

Rinse and repeat.


3 posted on 04/04/2024 3:57:02 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Perhaps they should stop supporting terrorists.


4 posted on 04/04/2024 3:58:01 PM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ok NBC News, now go talk to the families of Israeli’s who were SLAUGHTERED on October 7th..come on, you can go over there and pretend to give two sh*ts about them too


5 posted on 04/04/2024 3:58:53 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Zaqout, 22, said Ahmad placed his hand on her belly and told her: “This is it. She is our last hope.”

I call BS. A Muslim man would not consider a daughter to be the last hope.

6 posted on 04/04/2024 4:02:53 PM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t start wars.

This won’t happen.


7 posted on 04/04/2024 4:02:55 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (DEI = Didn't Earn It!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So Long, Farewell - Sound of Music

There's a sad sort of clanking
From the clock in the hall
And the bells in the steeple too.
And up in the nursery an absurd little bird
Is popping up to say cukoo!
Cukoo! Cukoo!
Regretfully they tell us

But firmly they compel us
To say goodbye to you.

So long
Farewell
Aufwiedersehn Goodnight
I hate to go and leave this pretty sight

So long
Farewell
Aufwiedersehn Adeiu
Adeiu Adeiu
To yieu and yieu and yieu

So long
Farewell
Au 'voire Aufwiedersehn
I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne

So long
Farewell
Aufwiedersehn Goodbye
I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye

Goodbye!

I'm glad to go I cannot tell a lie
I flit I float
I fleetly flee I fly

The sun has gone to bed and so must I
So long Farewell
Aufwiedersehn
Goodbye--

Goodbye...
Goodbye...
Goodbye...
Goodbye...

8 posted on 04/04/2024 4:07:04 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

SOUND OF MUSIC-—When the family was prepping to flee across the Mountains???


9 posted on 04/04/2024 4:09:41 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let them eat this baloney. The IDF found weapons even in the PILLOWCASES of that Shifa hospital. I imagine that would be hard to sleep on, and that the patient in those beds would have been aware of it. No sympathy from me, none at all. Fewer kids to brainwash and turn into terrorists.


10 posted on 04/04/2024 4:10:20 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: ridesthemiles

Yep...claiming they were going on tour.


11 posted on 04/04/2024 4:17:05 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Fledermaus

It is.

From 2015 on infant mortality in Gaza...

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-193829/

The Palestinians have always been their own worst enemy.


12 posted on 04/04/2024 4:23:37 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hosting violent terrorists in maternity wards has consequences.


13 posted on 04/04/2024 4:26:14 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe Fauci convinced them to take the “jab” while prego. That’ll kill the baby every time.


14 posted on 04/04/2024 4:33:48 PM PDT by Singermom
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Forgot to add. The booster killed my daughter by cancer in 15 weeks. Breast cancer throughout her body in 15 weeks. Healthy to dead.


15 posted on 04/04/2024 4:35:41 PM PDT by Singermom
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, Gaza could sue for peace. Short of total defeat, that’s how wars end.


16 posted on 04/04/2024 4:38:47 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: Fledermaus

One less future terrorist.


17 posted on 04/04/2024 4:51:39 PM PDT by Mr_Peter (The FBI is a criminal organization)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fake news


18 posted on 04/04/2024 5:18:10 PM PDT by InsidiousMongo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When your government (such that it is) breaks a long-term cease fire to send a horde of soldiers across the border to rape, murder and kidnap civilians, don’t be too surprised if the invaded country decides to wipe you out of existence. Don’t like it? Take it up with the people who directed the invading horde.

If someone attacks you with a knife, defend yourself with a gun.


19 posted on 04/04/2024 5:51:55 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

imagine if these “civilians” spent 1/100th the effort trying to get into Egypt as they spent trying to get into Israel to murder kids!


20 posted on 04/04/2024 6:05:52 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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