News

“The pain and loss were overwhelming”: As gender-based violence rises in Gaza, case workers tell of harrowing conditions

calendar_today15 July 2025

Women and girls seek support at a UNFPA-supported safe space for women and girls, which offers support and services from a tent set up outside a school building that currently houses displaced people in Gaza city. © UNFPA Palestine/Yasmeen Sous
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Statement

Joint statement by OCHA, UNDP, UNFPA, UNOPS, UNRWA, WFP and WHO on fuel shortage in Gaza

calendar_today12 July 2025

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News

As famine looms in Gaza, pregnant women and newborns face life-threatening health risks

calendar_today19 May 2025

Israel’s catastrophic aid blockade on Gaza has gone on for over two months, in which all supplies – including food, medicine, shelter and fuel – have been cut off. ©UNFPA Palestine/Media Clinic
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News

From natural process to nightmare: How Gaza’s women and girls cope with their periods in a war zone

calendar_today02 June 2025

Women and young girls in a destroyed displacement camp in Gaza. ©UNFPA Palestine/Media Clinic
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News

Despite steep funding cuts, heroic teacher determined to keep girls in school and out of child marriage in Yemen

calendar_today21 April 2025

Some 1.5 million girls in Yemen are not in school, which blights their future learning and employment opportunities and exposes them to higher risks of child marriage. ©YWU
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Video

The aid blockade in Gaza must end now

calendar_today23 May 2025

The aid blockade in Gaza must end now

The aid blockade in Gaza must end now

Women and children in Gaza are being starved in full view of the world.

On top of this, they face severe shortages of medicine and life-saving care amid relentless attacks on hospitals.

See why UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is calling for the aid blockade to end now.

Video

Pregnant women in the West Bank are struggling to access life-saving care

calendar_today29 April 2025

Pregnant women in the West Bank are struggling to access life-saving care

Pregnant women in the West Bank are struggling to access life-saving care

“I was almost unconscious, vomiting, feverish.”

Nadine was moments away from delivering her baby when she was trapped at a roadblock in the occupied West Bank.

Maternity care is essential to save lives, especially in humanitarian settings.

Hear her story and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is working to ensure safe birth.

News

“I witnessed unimaginable horrors”: Sexual violence used as weapon of terror against women and girls across Sudan

calendar_today02 April 2025

There are alarming reports of sexual violence being used as a weapon of terror across Sudan. Over 12 million women and girls – and increasingly men and boys – are estimated to be at risk of assault. ©UNFPA Sudan
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Publication date

Apr 2025

Author

UNFPA Palestine

Resources

Palestine Situation Report #16 - March 2025

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News

Between siege and survival: The unheard struggles of mothers in the West Bank

calendar_today11 April 2025

A woman stands amid the rubble of her home following a raid by the Israel forces in Jenin, in Palestine’s West Bank. ©UNFPA Palestine/Media Clinic
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