Hope to motherhood buried under the ruins

Twenty -six -year -old Palestine Noura, who finally became pregnant after years of treatment of extracorporeal fertilization (IVF), has collapsed. As she told for BBC News Arabicafter losing pregnancy and destroying frozen embryos Because of the war in Gaza There is no « nothing ». Her story is just one of many who testify to the destroyed dream of parenting in the Palestinian enclave. Israel is triggered a military operation According to Hamas’s attack 7. October 2023, in which about one thousand two hundred people were killed, according to Israeli. Since then he’s in Gazi died at least 54,000 peoplereported BBCwhich refers to the data of the Ministry of Health there.

In early December 2023 he was in Israel’s firing The destroyed Al Basma fertility center in the city of Gaza, the largest in the enclava. According to the director of the center, according to the Center Director dr. Bahe ghalayini after BBC Destroyed by nearly four thousand frozen embryos and more than a thousand samples of sperm and eggs stored in liquid nitrogen tanks. Anadol It reports that more than five thousand embryos have been destroyed. Dr. Ghalayini explained that these embryos represented « the dreams of people who had been waiting for years and were serving painful healing. » Destruction affected between a hundred and hundreds of women, for whom it may have been the only opportunity for motherhood. According to him, all fertility clinics in gauze are destroyed or no longer acting.

In addition to the direct destruction due Anadolalso fatally hindered broader influences Israeli blockages and constant attacks on the enclave. Long -term electricity outages, which are crucial for the operation of incubators and other sensitive equipment, as well as disorders in the supply of medical devices and medicines, have made it difficult to work and threaten stored embryos before the attacks on the clinics themselves. The new liquid nitrogen reservoirs, which is necessary for embryos conservation, could not be made nor imported or imported in the midst of constant Israeli attacks, which further contributed to the humanitarian crisis and loses the possibilities for many couples.

Fate has also affected Islam Lubbadwho became pregnant with the Al Basma Clinic just before the war, but lost the baby due to constant escape and exhaustion, as well as the remaining frozen embryos. Sara Khudari However, she told the same medium that she was just waiting for the embryo insertion when the war began, and could only « observe how everything had collapsed. »

In March this year, the Independent United Nations International Investigation Board accused Israel of « deliberately attacking and destroying the Basma IVF clinic » in order to « prevent births among Palestinians in Gaza » and partially destroyed their reproductive capacity, which was called as described as one of the categories of genocide actions. From the permanent mission of Israel at the UN, these allegations were « categorically rejected as unfounded ». Even from Israeli’s defense forces are for BBC reported that they do not intentionally target the fertility clinics and that the claims about it were unfounded. Nevertheless Israel remains accused of genocide before an interstate courtwho ruled in January that it was « likely » that Israel performs genocidal acts in Gaza and ordered him their immediate termination and providing humanitarian aidreports Anadol.