RegendansMaha, 56, holds six-month-old Hamza, the orphan boy she has adopted. She raised his father, Omar, after his father was killed in the 2008 Gaza war, and now she is raising Hamza after Omar and his wife Diana were killed last year in an Israeli air strike [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]
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This story is part of a miniseries, Mothering on the Margins, exploring how five women around the world grapple with impossible circumstances to raise their children.
