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

Front-line midwives: Three reasons to support these humanitarian health workers amid a global funding crisis

calendar_today02 May 2025

In the delivery room of the Kyeshero Hospital in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a team of midwives assist a displaced woman who has just given birth. © UNFPA DRC / Jonas Yunus DRC
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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.

Publication date

May 2025

Author

UNFPA Palestine

Resources

Palestine Situation Report - April 2025

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Video

Mothers in Gaza are struggling to feed their children

calendar_today12 May 2025

Mothers in Gaza are struggling to feed their children

Mothers in Gaza are struggling to feed their children

Giving birth shouldn't be a fight for survival.

In Gaza, Nisma had to flee her home pregnant and now struggles to feed her newborn.

Hear her story and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is supporting mothers during humanitarian crises.

Video

Mothers in Gaza deserve to give birth safely

calendar_today05 May 2025

Mothers in Gaza deserve to give birth safely

Mothers in Gaza deserve to give birth safely

Every mother deserves a safe birth.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t the case for Adlah, who had to deliver her baby under bombardment and displacement in Gaza.

Hear her story and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is supporting mothers during humanitarian crises.

Publication date

Apr 2025

Author

UNFPA Palestine

Resources

Palestine Situation Report #16 - March 2025

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