Clinically dead Gazan mother called 'security threat', denied passage through Israel
Date: 05 / 10 / 2008 Time: 15:38
Gaza - Ma’an - Thirty-year-old Karimah Abu Dalal was pronounced clinically dead in a Gaza City hospital while she waited for permission to undergo a second bone marrow transplant in Jordan, after a relapse in her leukemia, discovered after the birth of her first son.
Karimah is from the An-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, and was diagnosed with leukemia after the birth of her son Ahmad, who is now three.
The disease spread rapidly, and Karimah was never able to nurse her son. She was sent to Egypt where she had her first bone marrow transplant at twenty-seven, but six months later she experienced a chronic immune response against the transplanted tissue, and her health deteriorated rapidly.
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