Hana Mohammed Khodor: Pregnant woman, 21, dies after husband sets her ablaze for not having abortion
TRIPOLI, LEBANON: A Lebanese woman who was 5 months pregnant was brutally beaten and set on fire by her husband because she refused to have an abortion. 21-year-old Hana Mohammed Khodor was rushed to Al-Salam Hospital in northern Lebanon where she tragically died after fighting a 'bleak' battle for survival for the past 11 days. She was admitted on August 6, according to a doctor from the hospital. The Daily Mail reported that Hana's husband who is identified as AA set her ablaze with a gas canister. The 21-year-old had been receiving treatment for burns to her entire body.
The doctor said the chances of Hana's survival were "very bleak" and that her unborn child died in the womb and had to be surgically removed. The horrific and inhuman attack is alleged to have started with AA viciously beating his young pregnant wife when she told him she wanted to keep their baby, due to be born in December. The argument stemmed from the financial burden that the child would put on the family, with the couple reportedly coming from poor upbringings in the north of the country.
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Abdul Rahman Haddad, a family friend told Arab News that Khodor died on Wednesday, August 17. A hospital official confirmed the news and said her body had already been claimed by her family. The woman's husband was later arrested by the police as he was planning to flee the country.
Before her death, Hana’s family had appealed to the people for funds and donations to help pay for her medical treatment including multiple operations and blood transfusions. She suffered third-degree burns and was on life support. Attending doctors had waived their fees but still, the impoverished family had to meet the daily cost of $400 excluding treatments, operations, and reconstructive surgeries. “She needed 15 blood platelets transfusions daily, and each costs $100, aside from the daily costs of the hospital bed, medical equipment, and ICU treatment,” said the family.
On Tuesday, Hana's Aunt told a local news channel "When she refused to abort the baby, he took her home and set her on fire using the gas cylinder.” According to Al-Salam Hospital's medical report, if Hana had survived, she would have needed three months of further treatment. Haddad said that her situation was "too delicate and serious," and her hospital bill was already in the thousands of dollars.
On August 4, 2020, the capital city of Beirut was rocked by a blast so enormous it shook the entire country after a giant pile of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse at the port exploded. There were 218 deaths and 7,000 injuries in a cataclysmic explosion that was caught on numerous mobile phone cameras. Two years on the disaster is still under investigation and the devastation is so extensive that the city is not yet reconstructed and recovering.