Gaza’s pregnant women defy odds to give birth, protect babies
IN a flimsy tent crouched low among the smashed buildings of Rafah, Palestine Bahr felt her contractions begin early one day in May. Her baby was coming but how would she make her way through the rubble-strewn streets to a hospital without a car? She managed to find a donkey cart and rattled her way through the streets of the city in southern Gaza as her contractions got stronger. When she arrived at the Al Helal Al Emirati Maternity Hospital, she was tenth in line and had to wait for three hours before even getting to see a doctor. It…