After eight years of trying to get pregnant, finally helped along by IVF, Alaa Jabr is preparing to give birth to her baby girl in some of the most difficult conditions imaginable.
The 30-year-old expectant mother from Jabalia, in northern Gaza, is eight months pregnant and living in an overcrowded displacement camp in the southernmost city of Rafah.
“The doctor says I’m dehydrated, and I have to drink more water, but we don’t have drinkable water,” Jabr told Mohamed El Saife, a videographer working for CBC News, who interviewed her in the camp.
Even when there is clean water to drink, she say, she avoids doing so because
