This is what it's like to give birth under Israeli bombardment.

[Donkees]

Nov 17, 2023
This is what it’s like to give birth under Israeli bombardment. AJ+ filmed inside Gaza’s al-Shifa maternity ward before Israeli forces raided the hospital.

There are 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza who are forced to give birth under dire conditions, including overcrowding and the lack of proper sanitation, fuel, and medicine. In some cases, women are not given anesthesia for C-sections.

Without functioning hospitals, pregnant women will be at even greater risk. Since October 7th, over 11,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza — 70% of them women and children.

[tritsofme]

1. Even more reason for Hamas to release the hostages and surrender.

[Big Blue Marble]

3. I seriously doubt that you watched this video before your post.

Watch all the way through and know that is your tax dollars that are supporting horror on the women
and children of this god forsaken nightmare. Watch and tell me you don't sob for these
women and children.

Releasing the hostages will not stop the brutality these proud people are enduring.
Israel wants to force them out of Gaza one way or the other.

[tritsofme]

6. Nope, not interested in watching some Hamas PR video

I am proud of how President Biden has handled the situation, along with the solidarity he has shown the Jewish state and people.

If the hostages are released and Hamas surrenders, the war could end immediately.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

7. Meanwhile

women are suffering and dying BUT BUT BUT....

I can't believe I'm reading this stuff here.

[tritsofme]

8. They are suffering because Hamas wants them to suffer

I can’t believe the all the pro-Hamas propaganda people swallow up either, pretty sad.

[womanofthehills]

22. The tide is turning - majority of Americans want ceasefire

US public support for Israel drops; majority backs a ceasefire, Reuters/Ipsos shows

Only a third now think US should support Israel. By next week, it will be less.

There is massive global support for Palestine, because most people are horrified by graveyards of children -

If the mother is having trouble breathing in the bombed hospital - what’s in the air those newborns are breathing & will that baby be under rubble soon ? Will that baby lose her life or maybe her legs like the following baby?

Baby just learning to walk loses her legs. Multiple this by thousands.

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[Sugarcoated]

33. Hmm

Not so sure about that

[obamanut2012]

13. Right? And, it is interesting watching them think it's so kind of righteous flex to say this

It isn't.

[Bettie]

20. It's all part of the

whole narrative that anything done in the name of Israel is 100% correct 100% of the time, because everyone in Gaza is hamas or some such nonsense.

I have seen comments about how there are no innocent civilians in Gaza because of the election 19 years ago....an election that Netanyahu chose to meddle in to ensure that Hamas won, in order to avoid a two-state solution.

[womanofthehills]

26. Also - George Bush pushed for the elections that got Hamas in

Slate - “ How George W. Bush Helped Hamas Come to Power
In Bush’s naïveté about the magic of elections, he ignored a crucial point about democracy.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/was-hamas-elected-to-govern-gaza-george-w-bush-2006-palestinian-election.html

[TeamProg]

29. This. nt

[Big Blue Marble]

17. Then do not comment on the video.

It is no more or less propaganda than the horrific pictures and videos of violences on Oct 7th.

[tritsofme]

18. lol, I'll comment wherever I damn well please.

Thanks for asking, though!

[Big Blue Marble]

19. Fine but your credibility falls through the floor.

Somehow I had mistakenly thought that that Democrats were the party of human rights and
social justice for all, and that compassion for all humans, regardless of creed or color was
our mantra.

I must have missed something.

[tritsofme]

21. Goodness, I am just absolutely crushed! How will I ever make it through the day now?

I think it’s interesting that some of these folks making excuses for Hamas and regurgitating pro-Hamas propaganda are under the impression they have any credibility, on anything.

[Big Blue Marble]

25. Your sarcasm is noted,

as are your aggressive and inappropriate accusations.

in, reality it does not matter how people like you rationalize this violence and brutality..
The world is watching and thankfully most people who have the courage to watch this video
will identify with these women and babies. Israel is losing the propaganda war whether you
watch or not.

With your lack of compassion, I doubt that you have ever faced the vulnerability
of giving birth. I cannot imagine going through labor with bombs dropping around you
and bringing a child into this hell on earth.

[TeamProg]

2. We ALWAYS knew that Hamas committed war crimes. Now, the world is getting an updated

view of the other side's war crimes.

The Hague does not recognize the playground saying, 'he hit me first'.

The U.S. gov't did not intend for U.S. tax dollars to fund international war crimes.

[totodeinhere]

11. The US government itself has committed many war crimes

So I think it is kind of disingenuous to say that the government does not expect war crimes to be committed by our allies that we are supplying.

[TeamProg]

28. I vote for our lawmakers, I do not vote for the leaders of other nations. But yes, the U.S. has

committed many crimes, but then I get to try to vote them out.

That's not the case with our allies so it's not at all disingenuous.

Our supplied weapons and ammo are not intended for illegal or war crime purposes.

[malaise]

4. Nothing justifies this response

Bibi and his goons are war criminals

[Big Blue Marble]

5. That is a devastating video

I am in tears. Why are the Western Powers letting Israel do this? I keep asking
how does this horror and brutality benefit our country. Why is our government
allowing this to continue?

[Donkees]

15. Today, they're busy negotiating the natural gas field off Gaza's coast

US pushing Israel to allow development of natural gas field off Gaza's coast: Report
Biden’s top energy adviser, Amos Hochstein, is in Israel to discuss this issue

[totodeinhere]

9. I wonder what it was like to have Hamas

kill or kidnap innocent Israeli babies on October 7th?

[obamanut2012]

14. What does your bothsidesism have to do with the OP?

[totodeinhere]

16. Because I think it is unfair to call out only one side

but not the othe byr.

[LexVegas]

10. Al Jazeera is a Hamas propaganda arm. nt

[David__77]

12. The objective appears to be making civilian life impossible.

[question everything]

31. But they are alive. Not butchered as many Israelis on Oct. 7

[JI7]

23. That'd why they should do something about terrorists there

that attack other people including pregnant women who never get to give birth becsuse they kill them.

When people carry out the attacks like that the country will respond and go after those that did it and try to recue people they kidnapped.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

24. Al Jazeera is basically the equivalent of Russia Today

It's controlled by the Qatar government. I really don't understand why people trust it so easily.

I don't mean in particular with respect to this video, but in general.

[tritsofme]

27. Pro-Hamas propaganda is in high demand, that's why it's popular.

[question everything]

30. And the baby is alive. No such luck to babies in Southern Israel on Oct. 7. Among the pile of unrecognized burnt

people was one of a father holding his son.

[Nanjeanne]

32. Heartbreaking. nt