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Mar 2024
19m 44s

The strength and agony of Gaza’s mothers

Al Jazeera
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Finding enough diapers has become an almost impossible task in Gaza, nearly six months since Israel’s war began. As much of the Arab world celebrates Mother’s Day, we learn what raising a family in a war zone is really like.

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This episode was produced by Chloe K. Li and Miranda Lin with our host Malika Bilal. Zaina Badr and Sarí el-Khalili fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

Special shoutout to Eman’s mother, Rehab Kullab.

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