One million women and girls are bearing the worst brunt of nine months of war in Gaza, according to the UN Women Special Representative in the region. Maryse Guimond says nothing prepared her for the total destruction and inhumanity she saw during her latest visit to Gaza.
In the largely destroyed city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, mother Nabila Hamada is trying her best to keep her newborn son alive.But when Israeli forces threatened the hospital before raiding it, Nabila and her husband were forced to flee - and in the process had to leave one of the babies behind when medical staff said he was too weak to leave."My children miss my tenderness. I am unable to leave my little son, the twin that I took with me.
Mass vaccination campaigns since 1988 did drive down the number of global cases of polio by 99 per cent.Maryse Guimond is the United Nations Women Special Representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. "And they carry their dignity, or whatever is left of it, with them. And they just move from one place to another. Gaza is a sad story. There are two million sad stories in Gaza. Seeing Gaza on the news, reading about Gaza is one thing. But going there are listening to the agony of the people is totally another story."
Israeli negotiators landed in Cairo earlier this week, but there has been no sign yet of a breakthrough.
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