Psychological stress, fear and anxiety from Israeli bombings, power cuts, lack of clean drinking water, shaky infrastructure, a non-functioning sewage system, lack of adequate medical supplies, living in tin huts and imprisoned/killed/disabled husbands are just a few challenges pregnant women and their as-yet unborn babies face in Gaza.
Families affected by war have lost their homes, their means of living, and have nowhere to go. Women and children in shelters and makeshift homes have almost no privacy, and no proper access to decent sanitation. And there is hardly enough food. Women carry the burden of the entire family because the man of the house is unable to provide support. The majority of Gaza’s workforce is unemployed. There is widespread financial stress, hopelessness and insecurity. Giving birth and taking care of infants in such conditions is a at the very least a grave health hazard.
According to a United Nations report, the death toll in Gaza from July to mid-August in 2014 was 2104, 70% of them civilians, including 495 children and 253 women. Numerous pregnant women have been killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza. A total of 344 babies were born in UN schools designated as shelters. On 22 July at least 15 Palestinians sheltering in a UN school were killed and 200 injured most of them women and children. UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon called the attack a war crime. This, however, didn’t stop Israel from attacking another UN school a week later, this time killing 17 civilians.
Earlier in July, a female member of the Israeli parliament, Ayelet Shaked, had posted this on her Facebook page: “Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there”.
Is this the reason so many pregnant women were killed in Gaza? Because Israel believes they were acting as human shields for unborn ‘terrorists’?
Will the pregnant women and their yet-to-be-born child ever be safe in Gaza? What is their crime?
CoNN: A people who had Hitler attempt to exterminate them via Holocaust, are not just unsympathetic… they now emulate his attempt at stamping out not just a specific foe, but also his parents, his friends and his chidlren. It should be noted that the harshest of Isamic extremists, in ISIS which remains untouched by Israeli strikes for some reason, use the exact same rhetoric…. Same rhetoric, same indecrimminant murder of civillians, same targetting of those with a different religion….What is their main difference then? The choice of precision bombs over beheadings? Murder is murder.
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Israel needs to help the families affected by War, lead normal lives again! More aid needs to be delivered to the Palestinians who lost everything.
FU** Israel and Fu** Zionism (illuminati)