Some 60,000 pregnant women in Gaza face malnutrition, dehydration: Health Ministry
March 8 is International Women’s Day and Gaza’s Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra has provided an update on the challenges facing women in the Gaza Strip. Al-Qudra said about 5,000 women were still giving birth every month in the territory, in conditions that he said were “harsh, unsafe and unhealthy”.
About 60,000 women, meanwhile, were going through their pregnancies without proper health care and suffering dehydration and malnutrition. “We call on women’s institutions around the world to stand alongside Palestinian women and demand an end to Israeli aggression,” he said.
UNRWA on Women’s Day: 63 women being killed each day in Gaza
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has issued a reminder about the plight of Palestinian women in Gaza on Women’s Day. For every day the war continues, the agency says, an average of 63 women are killed.
Famine is looming in #GazaStrip📍 #Women & children are paying the highest price:
🛑 Mothers often go without food to feed families
🛑 95% of pregnant & breastfeeding women in north #Gaza face severe food poverty
🛑 Nearly 9 in 10 women find it harder to access food than men
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) March 8, 2024
‘I yearn for the girl I used to be’: Gaza women tell their stories
Four displaced women in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah have spoken to Al Jazeera about their lives during Israel’s war on their enclave.
