Israeli attacks leading to increase in birth defects
Israel
Samar Hamdan, who fled from Jabaliya in northern Gaza Strip to Deir al-Balah in April when she was four months pregnant, was shocked when her baby girl Noor was born early with a congenital deformity. “The doctors told me that my daughter has a good chance of survival, but she will live her life without hands and feet,” Hamdan told The Electronic Intifada. Prosthetics are a medical possibility in the future, she said doctors had told her. They had also said that the likely cause of Noor’s
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