May 31, 2024
As Amal Nassar
lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in
northern Gaza, the echoes of explosions and artillery fire could be heard all
around her. It was mid-January and she had made her way to the embattled
hospital to give birth to a baby girl she would name Mira. While Amal should
have been celebrating her infant’s delivery, instead she was engulfed in fear,
surrounded by the relentless nightmare of death and suffering that she and her
family had experienced for months.
“I was muttering
to myself, ‘I hope I die,’” she recalled.
