A Generation of Birth Defects in Fallujah: Fifteen Years after the Bombing of Phosphorus

Minutes after Aboud Salam knows which fate awaits his family. The joy of life or seclusion. His feet lead him in the outer courtyard of the Falluja Teaching Hospital for Women and Children back and forth in a circular path. The rosary beads swirl between his fingers quickly. His wife entered the maternity ward accompanied…