Hello everyone, I am Afnan from Gaza, I am 21 years old. I got married five months before the start of the war on Gaza, but the war had another opinion in the coup of my life. Youssef, my husband, was martyred at the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7. I was pregnant at that time with our first child in the fifth month of pregnancy. My child was born, an orphan during the war on 27/2/2024. Now my child is one year and four months old. My child became an orphan and he is in my womb. He does not know what the father means. I lost in the war. I have everything I have from the work of the university of my husband's friends, everything. My child and I lived in tents and we endured the harshness of winter and its coldness and the heat of the tent in the tent in the summer and the spread of insects everywhere. The war is still
Shortly after the birth of my child, I discovered that there was a defect in the movement of his left hand and foot. I was able to make an X-ray with great difficulty due to the overcrowding of hospitals in Gaza with the wounded and the lack of a complete health system. When I did the picture, I discovered that my child has a slight lack of oxygen on the left side of the brain, which affected the movement of his right hand and foot. He cannot use his hand normally. It was because of the traumas he suffered during pregnancy and childbirth because of his father's martyrdom, and I was pregnant with it. The only solution in these situations is to do physical therapy for Youssef, my child is intensive in order to heal, and being a widow woman, I'm tired of displacement, and we don't have any breadwinner, and no one can spend on us or work for us.
Organiser
Francesca Cafaro
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Rome, LZ