More Than 1,000 Gazan Children Are Dead. How Can We Even Begin to Mourn?

More Than 1,000 Gazan Children Are Dead. How Can We Even Begin to Mourn?

In my career as a Gazan American physician, I’ve delivered 1,000 babies. Israel has killed that many children in a week.

By

Dana Elborno ,

Truthout

Published

October 17, 2023

A Palestinian woman carries an injured child to a hospital in Khan Yunis on October 16, 2023.

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My husband and I are 100 percent Palestinian from Gaza. We live in diaspora in the United States with my 5-month-old daughter. My husband’s entire immediate family is in Gaza. They live in the now-devastated Rimal neighborhood and are among the hundreds of thousands internally displaced in Gaza within the past seven days. This displacement is both due to airstrikes flattening more than 1,300 residential structures in Gaza, and due to the evacuation order issued October 13 to over 1 million people to flee the north for the south of Gaza.

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