C-sections without anesthesia and malnourished pregnant women in Gaza

He Vicar of the Custody of the Holy Land, Franciscan Ibrahim Faltas assures that there are “60,000 pregnant women suffering from hunger and malnutrition” in Gaza. “Caesarean sections are performed without anesthesia” and where children are “starving to death”.

“We cannot close our eyes and hearts in front of hungry and frightened children. We cannot remain indifferent to the fact that 60,000 pregnant women in Gaza suffer from hunger and malnutrition in their delicate and important condition: giving life.

We celebrated yesterday Women’s Daybut 9,000 women have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war,” he says in statements to the religious agency SIR.

Faltas, who traveled to Italy to accompany children from Gaza hospitalized in Italy thanks to the engagement Italian government and several humanitarian associations, he reminded that “in this devastating war Holy land So many children and so many women died. Many children are orphans, many mothers have lost their children.

Dead in Gaza strip They have exceeded 30,900 in five months of war, while hunger has begun to claim lives in the north of the enclave in recent weeks, and yesterday three more babies died at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City due to malnutrition and dehydration.

The number of people who died of hunger thus rises to 23, among whom the majority are babies, but also an elderly man and a 15-year-old teenager, the Ministry of Health announced.

“Humanity will fall into an abyss if it does not meet the basic needs of the helpless. The children of Gaza lack food and, like many other children in the world, are starving. Many have lost their parents, and many have quickly become adults. “Women who risk their lives to whether their lives have the right to be protected and protected,” she explains.

This is what the Franciscan friar remembers “Women in Gaza give birth in poor hygienic conditions and with little strength. They perform caesarean sections without anesthesia in hospitals without electricity, water or medicine” and calls for concrete measures to prevent children from being told that “their hunger must wait until the powerful” of the world they gave permission to be fed or they indifferently and quietly agreed to starve them to death.

“Many of these little ones,” he adds, “act like adults to help those who need them the most. I listen to their stories, read their stories and try to understand how some adults don’t feel the need to stop, to help, to stop doing more injustice.” “.

“How to erase the trauma of someone who was under the ruins and saved, while the other members of his family perished with him? How do you comfort that little boy who is trying to comfort his mother who has lost another child?” he asks himself.