By SAMY MAGDY and MARIAM DAGGA Updated 9:15 PM EDT, July 26, 2025
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.”
I think Palestinian parents are not to blame for Israel being a baby killing ethnostate that’s trying to exterminate them.
You are literally advocating for compliance with genocide. Palestinians giving up on life and ceasing reproduction is Israel’s goal.
Agreed.
I think there is still hope for the country. I never said otherwise. I never said PaIestine should comply. I never said the people of PaIastine are to blame for anything. People are projecting nonsense between my words and I’m exhausted with the lack of reading comprehension here, so this will be my last comment in this thread. I see now why .ml has the reputation that it does. I will see myself out.
Meanwhile, I continue to see why I’m on ML and not one of your Redditeur instances.