Hospitals in the north of Gaza are barely functioning, with medical supplies and fuel running out.

Women are forced to undergo C- sections with only partial anaesthesia.

UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—just delivered critical medical supplies to Al Sahaba Hospital, the only functioning maternity hospital in Gaza City.

Hear from UNFPA Representative Dominic Allen about the desperate need he witnessed during a high-risk mission and stay up to date on our ongoing humanitarian response here.

Incubators at Al-Helal Al-Emirati Hospital in Gaza are full of babies with dead or missing parents. Hear from two doctors at the hospital about this tragic situation and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is taking action.

Learn more about the crisis in Gaza here.

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.

See how UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, is making motherhood safer in Gaza.
 

“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.