Shorouq spoke to FRANCE 24 in November about the challenges facing pregnant women in Gaza, which is experiencing severe shortages of both food and medical care. Eight months later, we asked her how she and her family are coping; not only do they face a constant threat from air strikes and shelling, but Shorouq’s daughter is suffering from stomach parasites due to dirty water.
When FRANCE 24 spoke to Shorouq in November, she was pregnant with her first child and living in a shelter in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. She gave birth in a hospital via C-section two months later, saying she was “very lucky” to have received a spinal anaesthetic. But the very next day she was forced to flee to Rafah to escape a rise in fighting.
