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'“[W]e clinically saw it in women not having periods because they’re so severely malnourished. We saw it in women who were having miscarriages, women who weren’t lactating, because when you’re pregnant or lactating, your caloric intake requirement increases. And these otherwise healthy women with no comorbidities were not producing any breastmilk, even though they had in previous pregnancies.”'
'“Every single woman I’ve seen pregnant or not was malnourished.”'
'It was just toxic. There is this poisonous smell in the air, acrid smoke still hanging, everything burned and charred, crunching medication vials under our boots. Kamal Adwan had one of the only functioning neonatal ICUs in the North at the time. We walked through the neonatal ICU, which hadn’t been burnt, but had been destroyed. There were incubators that had been smashed and strewn about. The whole facility was destroyed.”'
'Our findings underscore that each day that passes without adequate food and access to medical care for pregnant and lactating women and newborns diminishes the reproductive capacity, safety, and autonomy of Palestinians in Gaza.'
Destroying Hope for the Future: Reproductive Violence in Gaza
Report by Physicians for Human Rights and the Global Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School
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