Siwar Ashour was born into war and hunger and has known nothing else. She is now in real danger of dying without ever having known a moment of peace or contentment.
The six-month-old Palestinian girl, whose painfully emaciated body symbolised the deliberate starvation of Gaza when she appeared on the BBC this week, was only 2.5kg when she was born on 20 November last year.
From birth, Siwar had a problem with her oesophagus that has made it hard for her to drink breast milk and left her dependent on specialised formula, which is in critically short supply.
Her parents’ home in al-Nuseirat, halfway up the coast on the Gaza Strip, was bombed earlier in the war, which began in October 2023 when Hamas killed 1,200 people in Israel, leading to an Israeli assault that has so far killed more than 52,000 people in Gaza. They lived in tents for a while but it was almost impossible to get food or water in the camp and it also came under Israeli fire.
I had a really hard time raising my children. Infant and baby years were really hard, and everything was normal living situation. I couldn’t imagine doing what they are doing now to keep a baby alive in those conditions. What an awful way to live life…
Being an actual parent, you do what’s needed. You would have been fine, maybe you would eventually die to the conditions. But find solace in the fact that you would have fought to the end.
Biden might not have done enough to stop this, but Trump doing ZERO put the final nail in the coffin for these people.
Biden didn’t do enough to stop it? Dude, he actively facilitated it. He gave them weapons and money, including fast tracking a bunch, vetoed any resolution to help at the UN, criticized the ICJ and ICC for trying to hold them accountable, etc. Trump is just continuing Biden’s genocidal legacy with the Trumpian twist of wanting to take the land and turn it into hotels and resorts.
You guys know how jews hunted down nazis for decades after the end of world war 2?
It’d be nice to see if zionists got some of that medicine in response to their genocide.
“Trapped in gaza” ? Is this the new wave of titled that aim at suggestion they want to flea and they should go on ship somewhere?