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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Nour Ziad al-Batsh

‘Will my baby be born in a tent? Will it have food?’: what it’s like to be pregnant in Gaza

A pregnant woman wearing a burqa walks with a small boy between makeshift camps in Gaza
A pregnant Palestinian woman and her son in a makeshift displacement camp in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

This pregnancy is not like my others. I have not been allowed to feel the joy I felt last time, to plan for the future and dream about where my child will go to school and how to decorate his room. In Gaza these days, I can only wonder whether I can find food to keep my baby healthy and how it will be to give birth in a tent.

The natural joys I felt for the births of my daughter and son have been overwhelmed by depression, fear and anxiety because of this continuing genocide.

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