KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — A mother pressed a final kiss to what remained of her 5-month-old daughter and wept. Esraa Abu Halib’s baby now weighed less than when she was born.

On a sunny street in shattered Gaza, the bundle containing Zainab Abu Halib represented the latest death from starvation after 21 months of war and Israeli restrictions on aid.

The baby was brought to the pediatric department of Nasser Hospital on Friday. She was already dead. A worker at the morgue carefully removed her Mickey Mouse-printed shirt, pulling it over her sunken, open eyes. He pulled up the hems of her pants to show her knobby knees. His thumb was wider than her ankle. He could count the bones of her chest.

The girl had weighed over 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) when she was born, her mother said. When she died, she weighed less than 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds).

A doctor said it was a case of “severe, severe starvation.”

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[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No. I'm not suggesting that nobody in PaIestine a should ever have children ever again.

In fact, I haven't suggested anything.

I'm questioning why people in G aza specifically, which is an active warzone with no food or water, where kids are targetted with violence, would bring babies there.

I'm trying to gain insight into the situation and minds of the people there.

Children are being slaughtered. As a human being, I personally wouldn't want to add to that. But that's just me. I may be ignorant to the thinking of the people there.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

there is incredible amount of human suffering. it is weird to he asking that question amongst all of that suffering. What are you suggesting they do if they become pregnant and all hospitals are filled with bombed people? What would you do in that situation? How would you seek your abortion that is the objectively morally correct choice according to you?