INTERVIEW: 5,500 women in Gaza set to give birth ‘in race against death’
news.un.org
In just a matter of weeks, some 5,500 women are due to give birth in Gaza, where doctors in overstretched hospitals are delivering babies with little or no anaesthesia - sometimes by the light of mobile phones.

Laila Baker, Regional Director for the Arab States at the sexual and reproductive health agency, said she fears for the fate of new mothers and their children amid the “loss of complete humanity” in Gaza.

"Put yourself in the shoes of that woman when the surgeon says to her ‘I have no anaesthesia, I don’t even have water or soap to wash my hands, but I’m going to try and save your life,’” she said.

  • jarfil@beehaw.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    Does it really change with context?

    Palestine and Israel have been in a “demographic war” for quite some time:

    • iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      What you posted is in context…? I don’t understand what you mean. I mean out of context as in the absence of politics and nations… The world’s alone… With no context.