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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Arwa Mahdawi

An Israeli bomb destroyed 4,000 embryos at a Gaza IVF centre. Where is the outrage?

An open fridge chock-full of stacks of glass tubes, with blue and orange plastic.
‘For at least half the couples who were patients, those embryos were their last chance to get pregnant.’ Photograph: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters

The majority of Gaza’s frozen embryos have been destroyed

If you, or someone you love, has ever had fertility issues, you will know just how heavy an emotional toll they can take. IVF, in particular, is not easy. You have to inject yourself with hormones. Then you undergo anaesthesia and have an operation to retrieve the eggs. Then the embryos are made. Finally, you implant the embryos. It’s a long, expensive and involved process that can take a physical and emotional toll. At the end, you hope it’ll all be worth it. At the end, you hope there will be a baby.

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