It is upsetting to see many Palestinian women give birth during this dangerous time. With no functioning hospital available, there would no doctor, nurse, or midwife to assess whether the baby and mother are healthy or not. This is heartbreaking because postpartum care is important for the mother while her newborn is in dire need of their mandatory vaccines to keep their immune system safe from viruses!
Suad Ahmad (@khaled-mother) has given birth to a baby boy named Khaled. Since he is not vaccinated, he is infected with 2 infections! There is one in his chest and he would have trouble breathing. It is the up to the point where he is dependent on a nubelizer and he is required to have it in 4 sessions per day!
She also tells me that she would borrow electricity from kind people who have installed solar panels when these sessions take place, but this not a reliable method. At the same time, she is ill and is in bodily pain, but she has to stay strong to protect her son. God, this breaks my heart. Suad and Khaled deserves better.
So let's help them out, please! We've been trying to raise a short-term goal of 29K, but donations has been incredibly slow. The last one has been made 5 HOURS AGO.
As of writing this (Sept 16th), $28,194 has been raised. There is only $806 USD left to go! Please donate and share! You can also match me! I've given $5 USD, but you're more than welcome to give more.
I also want to remind you that Tumblr has shadow banned Suad for the 3rd time! She has informed that she is exhausted from making an account over and over again! ! !
Very strange to me how many people seem to think Steven would be a lenient parent and Connie a strict one. Steven literally yells at his dad in Future because of his loose parenting, and Connie essentially has a meltdown in Nightmare Hospital because of how strict her mom is 💀💀💀
Layan Albaz is one of thousands of Palestinian children who had lost limbs in Israeli air strikes since October 7—and one of the very few evacuated to the U.S. for medical care.
The new Atavist story, COMING TO AMERICA, is now live, and also available in Arabic:
The average U.S. public school has about 550 students. Imagine eight or nine schools in an area roughly the size of Philadelphia where every kid is missing at least one limb. Imagine also that their amputations happened alongside a torrent of other tragedies: the loss of family members, friends, neighbors, schools, houses.
Now imagine that the only hope to reclaim some semblance of physical normalcy required those children to leave home. Gaza’s sole manufacturer of prosthetics and its affiliated rehabilitation center were destroyed in an air strike months ago; as a result, many families of children who have lost limbs are trying to evacuate them so they can receive medical care abroad. Social media is brimming with their desperate pleas, and only a few get what amounts to a lucky ticket for the mortally unlucky: Countries willing to take pediatric amputees from Gaza are doing so in relatively small numbers.
The kids who do find a way out board planes for distant places. In Layan’s case, that place was more than 6,000 miles away from everything and everyone she knew.