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‘I am dying slowly’: Gaza professor blocked from cancer treatment by Israel’s siege
['Maha Hussaini', 'Gaza City', 'Occupied Palestine', 'Belen Fernandez', 'David Hearst', 'Marchella Ward']
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In a cramped space beneath the staircase of a school-turned-shelter in southern Gaza, university professor Kholoud Abu Sahmoud is slowly losing her battle with cancer.
But after several chemotherapy sessions, my condition only continued to worsen,” Abu Sahmoud told Middle East Eye.
Now even those have run out," Dr Muhammed Abu Nada, director of the Gaza Centre for Cancer, told MEE.
'My health deteriorates every day with this endless waiting' - Kholoud Abu Sahmoud, Palestinian cancer patient"I've been waiting for urgent medical evacuation for nine months."
Since the genocide began, Abu Sahmoud says she has been forcibly displaced around 30 times after her home was destroyed.