Hear from a midwife at Al-Helal Al Emirati Hospital in Rafah, Gaza, as she describes the chaos and suffering of childbirth in her hospital.

Learn more about how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is responding here.

After months of being repeatedly displaced around Gaza, Malak, 22, faced an uncertain three hour drive to reach the hospital when she went into labor.

Let her describe the unthinkable struggle of bringing life into the world amid the war in Palestine.

Malak, 22, was pregnant when the war in Gaza started. 

Forced to flee the bombs and tanks, she spent months being repeatedly displaced and searching desperately for prenatal care.

See the terrible reality for pregnant women like Malak of giving birth in Gaza.

Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis was a scene of death and destruction two months ago.

Now, thanks to the strength of the people of Gaza, it's functioning again and helping women give birth safely amid the devastation of war.

Hear from Dominic Allen, Representative for UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—in Palestine and Judith Starkulla, Head of UNFPA Gaza Office, on their recent visit.

See the latest on our humanitarian response.

Patients, including four babies in intensive care, are leaving the European Gaza Hospital following evacuation orders for KhanYounis.

Let UNFPA Representative for the State of Palestine, Dominic Allen describe how UNFPA and UN agencies are helping doctors.

Rafah is under attack and the already desperate condition for thousands of pregnant women is getting worse every day.

See how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is taking action to make motherhood safer at the International Medical Corps (IMC) field hospital in Gaza as the military assault on Rafah leads to more trauma and death. Learn more.

“Most babies will die.”

There aren’t enough ventilators at Al-Emirati Hospital in Rafah, Gaza to support the babies being born there.

Let Dr. Ahmed Al-Shaer, Deputy Head of the Incubator Care Unit at the hospital, describe the desperate situation and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is responding to mothers and babies in need.

Pregnancy and motherhood in Gaza are now fraught with danger as hunger and the diseases that stalk it thrive.

Al-Shifa hospital—where mothers and babies once received life-saving care—is in ruins.

The only way back from this nightmare is for a ceasefire NOW. 

Let UNFPA Palestine representative Dominic Allen show you the destruction and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is responding. 

“It is full of the smell of death."

The scenes of destruction in Gaza are unimaginable. Maternity wards emptied of patients and destroyed as life-saving maternal health supplies burn.

Pregnant women have nowhere to go to give birth safely.

See the levels of destruction and hear about the impact on pregnant women from Dominic Allen, Representative for UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—in Palestine on his recent visit to Khan Younis.