Palestinian girls run away after an Israeli air strike on a house in the northern Gaza Strip on Nov. 18. Photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters.
In Gaza, there are no sirens, no warnings and no bomb shelters. “We put plastic on the glass so that if it’s shattered during an air strike we won’t get hurt,” 35-year-old Marwa Bahar relays by telephone. “We run out to get supplies — bread, gasoline for generators and water — whenever we can. During bombing it’s safer in the apartment stairwell but nowhere is really safe.”
A colleague told me about the Almadhun family — four of the five family members are deaf. There’s no electricity in Gaza so they have no way of receiving television cues or audio warnings of any sort when air and naval strikes are ongoing.
“We also stay together. My sister lives on the 10th floor and now she has move into our place on the second floor,” added Bahar. “If people live in different parts of the city, they stay together in one place. It helps with support. If anything, this situation makes people more committed to Hamas.”
His face smeared with soot and white dust coating his black T-shirt , 30-year-old Ahmed Saleh stands atop the rubble that had been his home a day before.
“It was morning and we were sleeping. The walls collapsed. We didn’t understand what was happening and we couldn’t find the children. We had to dig them out. They were buried underneath the rubble.”
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lemariz:
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Call it “after the first trimester abortion is no longer an option and clearly that baby is past that point” learn your facts morons
wow that’s a really cute picture of a baby photoshopped to look kind of like a 4D ultrasound
wanna know what an actual 4D ultrasound looks like?
This is at eight months, well into the third trimester, at which point the fetus is considered viable because it has a good chance of surviving outside the womb.
FUN FACT: the later into your pregnancy, the more expensive and difficult the abortion.
FUN FACT #2: Abortions after the third trimester are illegal except in cases of medical necessity.
Very few abortions are performed even late into the 2nd trimester, when the fetus is definitely not viable and looks nothing like a fully grown infant
Want to know what a typical 6-7 week abortion looks like?
the forceps are pointing to the actual “baby”
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