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Trump aid cuts help push Gaza’s struggling mothers to the brink: ‘Our suffering is immense’

The Independent·Rachel Hagan·26 days ago
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W hen Raneen went into labour in Gaza , she desperately called for an ambulance but the dispatcher told her the service only responded to injured people. A neighbour found a horse-drawn cart, which moved slowly through Khan Younis, in the south of the besieged enclave, with Raneen's having little space to breathe between contractions . Her daughter was born into a war that had already taken her son and left her husband too sick to work. She had spent the pregnancy malnourished, anaemic and short of vitamins . She tells The Independent : " Our suffering is immense . My daughter was born amid this tragedy." Months later, she found Wefaq, a women -led organisation in Gaza, through word of mouth. They gave her a mattress and access to a psychotherapist. Raneen is one of 50,000 people supported this year by Wefaq, which provides legal aid, psychosocial care, a gender-based violence hotline and humanitarian assistance – more than double the number it reached before the war.…

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