The war is not over for Gazan women.
Gaza, which had been under the fire of a devastating war for two years, gradually lost signs of life, and fathers, mothers, and children were separated from each other forever, one after another, presenting to the world an image of Israel’s cruelty and crime, many of the realities of this horrific situation are still buried under the rubble of houses, hospitals, and schools.
Children missed two years of schooling, and patients died in hospitals waiting for medicine, and mothers, longing to embrace their children, poured pain and suffering into their maternal bodies one sip at a time, and asked for help from the whole world. Campaigns were organized almost all over the world in support of Palestine and the people of Gaza, but Israel closed all avenues for assistance.
Trucks carrying fuel, medicine, and food lined up behind the crossings, but their cargoes were spoiling in the long wait, while on the other side of the border, Gaza, besieged at the height of cruelty and cruelty, was counting down the minutes to receive food and medicine.
Meanwhile, the unequal war in Gaza dealt a heavy blow to mothers who, if they survived the Israeli bombs, carried the scars of their children and wives in their hearts, and the pain, suffering, and deprivation called cancer targeted their hungry and emaciated existences.
Al Jazeera Network wrote in a report on the situation of women in Gaza: Amid the rubble of destroyed houses and the tents of refugees battered by the autumn winds, the women of Gaza have entered another battle that is no less brutal than war. Their battle is with breast cancer, which has been exacerbated by years of siege and destruction, and its pain has increased in the absence of treatment and the collapse of the medical system.
In its report, the Qatari network addressed the lack of medical equipment and medicine needed to treat these women and wrote: This disaster coincides with October, which has been declared ‘Breast Cancer Awareness Month’ worldwide.
In one of these tents, a woman in her fifties recounts her pain as she prepares warm clothes for her children. She says she has been suffering from breast cancer for a decade after surviving a white phosphorus bombardment in 2008.
She has undergone surgery twice to remove her breasts and glands, but the disease has returned after five years, and her treatment has been halted since the start of the recent war in Gaza and the destruction of Gaza’s hospitals.