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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Aseel Mousa in Gaza

‘I could no longer breastfeed’: Gaza woman on two-month odyssey of displacement

Families fleeing the Israeli ground offensive arrive in Rafah, Gaza Strip
Families fleeing the Israeli ground offensive arrive in Rafah, Gaza Strip. Photograph: Hatem Ali/AP

Rina has already lost her husband, Omar, to an Israeli airstrike. Now she fears their baby son, Ahmed, could die from disease or cold, in the freezing tent by the Egyptian border that has become her fifth shelter in as many weeks.

After Omar died in October, Rina’s breast milk dried up. In the weeks since, the only constant in her life has been the ever more challenging search for formula and clean water to keep her only child alive as they flee across Gaza.

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