Israel’s genocidal 14-month old assault on Gaza has undermined the dreams of many people, especially parents or would-be parents like Manal Hamid.
“I suffer from a split uterus which prevents me from having children,” Manal, 39, told The Electronic Intifada in November.
Manal had been receiving fertility treatment for years. She and her husband, Raed, held on to a thin thread of hope that they would have a child by having one of her frozen eggs fertilized with her husband’s sperm at Al Basma Fertility Center in Gaza City.
“The doctor told me that the success rate of this operation is 90 percent,” she said. So expectant was she, that she had already chosen names. …..more
