Nancy Abu Matroud, a 22-year-old Palestinian mother, lost three of her children during the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip for nearly two years. She is now fighting to save her daughter, Etra, who has cancer.
“We are just asking for shelter. I don’t want to lose my daughter, who is still with me,” said Palestinian Nancy Abu Matroud, describing her ordeal after her two-year-old daughter was denied vital medical care following the closure of the children’s hospital treating her during the recent Israeli attack on Gaza City.
The Abu Matroud family was under immense pressure after Nancy was six months pregnant with twins. While fleeing the Israeli bombardment of Gaza City, she and her husband and their daughter, Etra, were displaced and reached the center of the Strip. After three days of walking, the mother miscarried.
She added, “After we arrived in the Nuwairi area, I felt pain in my abdomen and my water started to break. I gave birth prematurely to the twins.”
A spokesperson for Al-Aqsa Hospital, Khalil Al-Daqran, noted that one of the twins died at the nearby Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat, while the second baby was transferred to the neonatal unit at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and died two days later.
