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By Mushon Zer-Aviv
Mr. Zer-Aviv is a designer, writer, educator and activist based in Tel Aviv. He is a board member of A Land for All.
Of all the horrifying images coming from Gaza, the one that finally broke me was an Instagram video of Dr. Ali Alhaj Salem, a specialist in the neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, at Al-Helou Hospital. In it Dr. Salem explains that the premature babies in his care have been born early largely because of their mothers’ malnutrition and that, for the same reason, the hospital is experiencing a shortage of breast milk. The mothers are simply too malnourished to produce it, he says. His voice is unemotional, his language professional. He doesn’t cast blame. He doesn’t even mention the blockade of humanitarian aid that kept food, water and fuel from reaching those dependent on it in Gaza. As incubators beep in the background, the doctor explains that the infant formula they need is “not available in our market now.”
