Israel’s attacks on Gaza fertility clinics shatter dreams of parenthood
Al Jazeera
Israel’s war has devastated enclave’s reproductive health system; advocates call it a genocidal measure.
Gaza City – Maysera al-Kafarna, a Palestinian woman in Gaza, sorts through blue baby overalls brought for the child she was supposed to have.
But her dreams of motherhood have been dashed by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which ravaged the enclave’s healthcare system that saves lives, as well as the fertility centres that plan them.
After years of trying, al-Kafarna and her husband turned to in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). Their embryos were frozen in a fertility centre, waiting for the war to end, but the clinic was attacked by Israel.
“We had four viable embryos stored there in the first months of the war. We were shocked to learn they had been destroyed when the clinic was attacked,” al-Kafarna told Al Jazeera.
“It was deeply painful. We felt like we had lost a part of ourselves. We were waiting for a chance to have our baby.”
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