Pregnant women in Rafah are being told to bring their own mattress and pillow to give birth in the maternity ward.
Hear from Suhad (36), right before her scheduled C-section, about the desperate situation for expectant mothers like her.
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“These kits contain many essential items which are in severe shortage,” says Dr. Khawla, Head of Nursing at Nasser Hospital in Gaza.
Every day in the occupied Palestinian territory, aid workers like Dr. Khawla are risking their lives to deliver emergency assistance to women and girls.
See how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is taking action to make motherhood safer amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
“This war has taken everything from us,” said Helen (18), an internally displaced woman in Gaza.
See her heartbreaking story and learn how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency— is responding to this humanitarian crisis.
UNFPA Palestine representative Dominic Allen describes the nightmare situation he witnessed on his recent visit to Gaza.
He met women and girls living with the constant threat of bombs and pregnant women suffering from thirst, malnutrition and ill health.
Learn how UNFPA is providing them with much-needed support and supplies here.
From the newly created UNRWA field hospital in Gaza, UNFPA Palestine Representative Dominic Allen tells us the catastrophic situation on the ground.
With hospitals being far over capacity, midwives and doctors are beyond exhausted.
UNFPA is committed to providing them with much-needed support and supplies.
“Pregnancy in these circumstances is an extraordinary suffering,” says Seba (28), who is 9 months pregnant and has two children.
People in Gaza don’t have water, food, enough blankets, hygiene facilities, and the medical assistance they need.
Let Seba share her heartbreaking story and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency— is providing life-saving support to pregnant women in shelters in the southern Gaza Strip. Learn more.
“Pregnant women have suffered… The hospital is not safe.”
Health care workers like Dr. Haya Hijazi are heroes, but they can’t save lives when bombs are falling and they are out of electricity and medicine.
Hear from Dr. Hijazi about the horrific situation for pregnant women in Gaza, where 180 births a day are taking place amid relentless bombardment, and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is responding.
Alaa is one of the many pregnant women in Gaza who have been losing their babies from stress and malnutrition.
Hear her heartbreaking story and see how UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, is taking action to make motherhood safer.
Hear from three pregnant women trapped in #Gaza about the dire conditions they are facing.
UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, is supporting reproductive health and counselling services and stands ready to deliver vital aid once access to Gaza is restored.
Learn more here.
“We had to perform a premature delivery from a mother’s womb while she was dying.”
Dr. Nasser Bulbul, Head of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, spoke candidly to us about the extreme suffering of pregnant women and orphaned infants living in a state of fear and terror as the bombardment intensifies.
See how UNFPA—the UnitedNations sexual and reproductive health agency—is responding and join our call for a humanitarian ceasefire.