There are memories that will always haunt you.
I remember Wafa. Wafa was a woman in her thirties. She was dead when the paramedics brought her to the emergency department of al-Shifa hospital, where I was working that day.
Wafa had struggled with infertility for 16 years. But after several attempts at artificial insemination, the treatment finally succeeded.
And then some: In August 2023, Wafa gave birth to quadruplets, three boys and one girl.
They were all killed in an Israeli airstrike on her husband’s home not long after 7 October. He survived, but I have no further information about him.
Why do I remember Wafa’s case so vividly? ….more