Pregnant women in Gaza urgently need life-saving care

“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.”

“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.

Pregnant woman stuck under rubble in Gaza shares heartbreaking story

“They bombed the house next to us. I was under the rubble and couldn’t move,” says Islam, who was pregnant and 10 days from her due date when her home in Gaza was destroyed by relentless bombardment.

Listen to her tell her heartbreaking story and see how UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, is responding to this humanitarian crisis. 

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Doctor at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza pleads for help

“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.

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