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<div>Raneem Hijazi was eight months pregnant when an Israeli air strike hit her home in Gaza, badly injuring her and killing her 11-month-old baby boy, Azuz. Doctors performed an emergency c-section, with no drugs, water or electricity, with only the light from their mobile phones, and safely delivered her baby, Mariam.
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<div>Raneem lost an arm in the strike and her legs were so badly injured that she is now in a wheelchair. In fact, Mariam’s injuries were so severe that she was medically evacuated to Qatar for treatment where she has had to live apart from her family and baby Mariam who were unable to leave Gaza with her.
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<div>A year later, Raneem has finally been reunited with her family. “The minute I was reunited with my daughter - everything changed. I had already lost my son, and I had been deprived of my daughter for a year. All l hope for is for her to get attached to me, like her brother was,” she says.
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<div>But Raneem and her family urgently need help to rebuild their lives. “We’re not settled here, we don’t have jobs. Our life here is uncertain.”
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<div>We’re friends of Raneem based in London and are raising money to help Raneem pay for a prosthetic arm and to support her family as she undergoes at least another year of major surgeries so she is able to walk again and to take care of baby Mariam. 
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<div>Link to NPR story about Raneem and Mariam: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/1210942151/a-mother-and-newborn-from-gaza-reunited-after-months-apart" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/1210942151/a-mother-and-newborn-from-gaza-reunited-after-months-apart" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/1210942151/a-mother-and-newborn-from-gaza-reunited-after-months-apart</a></a>
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<div>Link to NPR Instagram video about Raneem and Mariam:
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<div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/npr/reel/DBbBsAXpCCP" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/npr/reel/DBbBsAXpCCP/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/npr/reel/DBbBsAXpCCP/</a></a>
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<div>Baby Mariam in hospital in Gaza after she had been delivered by emergency c-section:
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Help Raneem from Gaza get a prosthetic arm and care for baby

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