GAZA (Reuters) -Nancy Abu Matroud has already lost three children during Gaza’s war.

Now, the Palestinian mother, 22, is fighting to save her daughter, Etra – a two-year-old cancer patient newly deprived of vital medical care: the children’s hospital treating her shut down last month during Israel’s latest offensive in Gaza City.

“We are just asking for a shelter,” Abu Matroud said. “I don’t want to lose the daughter I still have.”

A deadly mix of disease, displacement, lack of medical care and malnutrition has beset most Gazan families during the almost two-year-old war, but the turmoil has placed a particular burden on young children and pregnant women such as Abu Matroud.

She was six months pregnant with twins when, fleeing Israeli bombardment in Gaza City last month, she arrived in

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