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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How many German women miscarried during WWII? This is so ridiculous. The idiot world has accepted that Hamas is a group of aliens who took over an unwilling, innocent population and committed acts of savagery that had nothing to do with any “Palestinian.”
Where’s the sob stories about the women and children butchered by Hamas?
None of this would have happened if they had just left the Israelis alone.
so very sorry for your loss
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