The brutal reality of daily life for Gaza's residents

Six days after she gave birth to her first baby, Salma Radi was forced to evacuate her home in northern Gaza to flee Israel's relentless bombing and seek refuge in the central Gaza Strip, where she and her husband are now staying in a small apartment with 43 other people.

Displaced, scared, and in bad health, Radi is struggling to take care of the baby, Omar, she had following two IVF attempts.

"I was still bleeding badly after having given birth when we had to evacuate our home, leaving everything behind. I carried my son and one bag and ran with my husband in the dark for around one hour until we found a taxi," Radi, 28, told Middle East Eye.

Before dawn, at 4am, that day, the couple had received a recorded phone message from the Israeli military, ordering them to evacuate ahead of imminent bombing on Gaza City.

"We started running around the house not knowing what to do. We took our official papers and money and left everything else behind - the piles of canned food we had bought at the beginning of the war, our clothes, the beautiful bedroom and the things we had bought for Omar over the past year," Radi said.

Click the link below to read Middle East Eye reporter Maha Hussaini's latest story from the Gaza Strip, as anguished parents struggle to meet their children's needs while their own bodies weaken. 

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