The 1000 day generation in Gaza a tent a rat bite and other tragedies

Before the Palestinian child, Naim Sobh, learned to walk, he learned the meaning of displacement, and before his brother Saddam uttered his first words, his early memory was associated with the sounds of planes and explosions. Saddam was born only two months before the war on Gaza, while his mother, Dima Sobh, carried his brother Naim, during which he was born 13 months ago, to become two young witnesses to a war that has been going on for 1,000 days, during which details were formed. Their first childhood between hunger, fear and displacement. They represent the case of thousands of children who were born during the war or lived the beginnings of their first lives under which, as their stories share the conditions of displacement, hunger and fear. Their mother, Dima, relives the details of the 1,000 days, and says – to Al Jazeera Net – that the war not only stole the childhood of her two sons, but also accompanied them from the first moment. Dima says that the suffering of her son, Naim, started before his birth, as she spent months of pregnancy in severe displacement conditions, during which she suffered hunger and lack of food, and was unable to obtain the minimum level of health care. When she went into labor, she did not find an ambulance or transportation to take her to the hospital, so she put her baby inside the tent. After giving birth, the family faced a new battle. With great difficulty, she was able to find a cart-drawn cart to transport the mother and her baby to the hospital, where Naim weighed only 1,500 grams, which necessitated his entry into the nursery for 4 days to receive the necessary care. The suffering did not end there, as the family faced a crisis in