Original article from CNN titled” Being a mother in Gaza is a matter between life and death”
Rajaa Musleh, 50, has been sheltering at Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest medical facility, which has been inundated not just by patients, but also displaced people desperately hoping that it might provide some protection from Israel’s brutal aerial campaign.
The Gaza representative for US-based healthcare NGO MedGlobal fled her home on the strip’s northern coast to Al-Shifa after the Israeli military declared war against Hamas in response to their deadly October 7 terror attack and called on civilians to evacuate the area in preparation for a ground operation.
More than 1.4 million people have been internally displaced in Gaza, the UN’s humanitarian office OCHA said on Monday. Many civilians have been forced to flee to refugee camps or hospitals that have surpassed capacity, often living in unsanitary living conditions.
The Al-Shifa hospital complex, she said, is overflowing with people, many of them women and girls sleeping on the floors of the hospital and outside, without access to physical or mental health care, water or privacy.
“Women are scattered all over the streets, all over the hospitals,” Musleh said. “I, personally, can’t go to the bathroom more than twice a day… amid the crowding.”
“Some are lucky if they can get a chance to use a bathroom with some 40, 50 or 60 people needing to use it.”
Musleh is one of hundreds of thousands of women in Gaza facing a desperate health crisis, since Israel’s complete blockade of the strip curtailed critical reproductive supplies, including pregnancy, postpartum and menstruation products, as well as basic necessities like drinking water and food. Meanwhile, mothers say they are dealing with the desperate reality that they have no way to protect themselves, or their children, from Israel’s relentless bombardment, which has struck residential areas, hospitals and schools.
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Rajaa Musleh, 50, has been sheltering at Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest medical facility, which has been inundated not just by patients, but also displaced people desperately hoping that it might provide some protection from Israel’s brutal aerial campaign.
Paraphrase Version 1.. The Al-Shifa hospital, the largest in Gaza, has become hugely overcrowded by both patients and civilians who think, Israel might not like to bomb the hospital on humanitarian grounds. Rajaa Muslleh, 50, is one of such people.
Paraphrase Version 2 .. Rajaa Musleh, 50, is one among the scores of civilians who have sought shelter in the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza to escape Israeli aerial bombing. The hospital now houses both patients and ordinary people who assume Israel might not bomb the hospital.
The Gaza representative for US-based healthcare NGO MedGlobal fled her home on the strip’s northern coast to Al-Shifa after the Israeli military declared war against Hamas in response to their deadly October 7 terror attack and called on civilians to evacuate the area in preparation for a ground operation.
Paraphrase version 1 .. MedGolobzal is an NGO operating in Gaza to provide healthcare facilities. The NGO’s Gaza representative left her home and rushed to the apparent safety of the Al-Shifa hospital as an Israeli ground attack loomed over Gaza after the Hamas’s attack on October 7.
Paraphrase version 2 … The Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel on October 7 made the latter to announce a massive revenge attack on Gaza. The warning forced the Gaza representative of the U.S. healthcare NGO, MdedGlobal to leave their home and hurriedly come to the Al-Shifa hospital as it was felt that Israelis wouldn’t bomb the medical facility.
More than 1.4 million people have been internally displaced in Gaza, the UN’s humanitarian office OCHA said on Monday. Many civilians have been forced to flee to refugee camps or hospitals that have surpassed capacity, often living in unsanitary living conditions.
Paraphrase version 1 .. The UN’s humanitarian office OCHA revealed on Monday that nearly 1.4 million people have fled their homes to seek shelter in refugee camps or in overflowing hospital compounds in unhygienic conditions.
Paraphrase version 2 .. Nearly 1.4 million civilians have left their homes to seek shelter in hospital compounds. However, the hospitals are already full with patients. The refuges live in the hospital complexes in appalling conditions where sanitation has deteriorated due to overcrowding. This has been stated by the UN’s humanitarian office OCHA.
The Al-Shifa hospital complex, she said, is overflowing with people, many of them women and girls sleeping on the floors of the hospital and outside, without access to physical or mental health care, water or privacy.
Paraphrase version 1 .. The lady representative of OCHA has narrated the way women and children patients have been forced to lie on the floor of the Al-Shifa hospital that has now been filled to the brim. The patients have to forgo their claims to privacy, water, and timely care for their injured bodies and minds.
Paraphrase Version 2 .. The Al-Shifa hospital, overcrowded with patients, now asks women and children to lie down on the hospital floor without proper medical attention, and even their need for water and privacy. The woman representative of OCHA has stated this.
“Women are scattered all over the streets, all over the hospitals,” Musleh said. “I, personally, can’t go to the bathroom more than twice a day… amid the crowding.”
“Some are lucky if they can get a chance to use a bathroom with some 40, 50 or 60 people needing to use it.”
Paraphrase version 1 .. Musleh narrated how the streets had women resting on them all around, and the bathrooms were overly crowded. He couldn’t go to the toilets more than twice a day as some 40 to 60 people waited in queue to use them all through the day.
Paraphrase version 2.. With a sense of disgust gripping his mind, Musleh described how the destitute women had to use the streets as their resting places, and how the hospital toilets remained occupied for most parts of the day. As some 40 to 60 people always waited in queue to use the facility, he couldn’t use them more than twice a day.
Musleh is one of hundreds of thousands of women in Gaza facing a desperate health crisis, since Israel’s complete blockade of the strip curtailed critical reproductive supplies, including pregnancy, postpartum and menstruation products, as well as basic necessities like drinking water and food. Meanwhile, mothers say they are dealing with the desperate reality that they have no way to protect themselves, or their children, from Israel’s relentless bombardment, which has struck residential areas, hospitals and schools.
Paraphrase version 1 … As soon as Israel started its counter offensive to avenge Hamas attack, it abruptly stopped supplies of all medical accessories, and drugs related to women’s health. Food and water supplies were also brought to a halt. Musleh, like hundreds and thousands of Gaza women, suffered the consequence of such a punitive action by Israel. Mothers, with no escape route available to avoid such an extremely difficult situation mull vainly over ways to save their lives and that of their children. With bombs raining down on residential areas, hospitals etc. with no respite, women have no option but to wait with their minds gripped by anxiety. Musleh is one of such beleaguered women waiting nervously as bombs fall relentlessly from the sky randomly.
Paraphrase version 2.. Musleh is one of the thousands of women in Gaza whose ordeal has become insufferable after Israel withheld supplies of water and food besides medicines and accessories vital for women’s healthcare. More frighteningly, Israeli bombs fall from the sky all through the day not sparing hospitals and residential apartments too. With no option left, women worried about their own and their children’s lives contend with the crisis with a feeling of dejection and extreme fear.
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