Lose a limb or risk death? Growing numbers among Gaza’s thousands of war-wounded face hard decisions

Lose a limb or risk death? Growing numbers among Gaza’s thousands of war-wounded face hard decisions

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The doctors gave Shaimaa Nabahin an impossible choice: lose your left leg or risk death. The 22-year-old had been hospitalized in Gaza for around a week, after her ankle was partially severed in an Israeli airstrike, when doctors told her she was suffering from blood poisoning. Nabahin chose to maximize … Read more