Giving birth with no painkillers under the bombs in Gaza
"My child doesn't have a name yet because of the war. She's four days old," says Kefaia Abu Asser. Sitting on a straw mat in a corner of a school shelter run by the UN in Rafah, in southern Gaza, Kefaia cradles her baby daughter, who is wrapped in a red blanket./ Stress and exhaustion are visible on her face. Being a first-time mother is hard anywhere in the world, but Kefaia had to do it under unimaginable trauma./ Originally from northern Gaza, the 24-year-old fled her home with her family after the Israeli military warned civilians to ...
Click
To Read Full Article
