With Israel’s 15 -month war against Gaza, it has imposed severe sanctions on humanitarian aid and Israeli forces on attacks on health care and targeting health care workers, causing pregnancy. Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a new report for women and children.
Despite the ongoing ceasefire, women in Gaza, under whom women are unlikely to give birth are unlikely to improve, the group noted in a report published on Tuesday, because Israeli legislation nations The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine has targeted and is likely to be targeted and taken. It is expected that this week’s impact will limit the supply of humanitarian aid to a destructive area.
The group found that Overey, to replace women in Gaza, has sometimes left the hospitals, sometimes within the hours of birth. Newborn care has also had a serious impact, saying with a doctor at Rafah’s Halal -ul -Murati maternity Hospital, saying that there were very few incubators and many premature children in the facility that doctors there were “four or five children an incubator.” I was forced to put. “
The doctor added, “Most of them do not live.”
Many children have died due to lack of refuge in the temperature.
In 56 pages ReportHRW concludes that as a power occupying Gaza – Israel has violated the rights of pregnant women and girls, including pregnancy, baby birth and postpartum as well as newborn care. The truth is included.
The group also emphasized that two pieces of legislation approved by Israeli Nest last year and affecting it on Tuesday “are at risk of furthering the loss of maternity and newborn health. Those who prevent Arohwa from working in Israel and occupying East Jerusalem and the Israeli government in contact with the agency, and obtaining permits for the UNRWA for their staff and providing the most essential assistance to Gaza Effectively make impossible.
HRW’s associate crisis, conflict and weapons director, Belkis Wali, told Al Jazeera that “despite the fact that the fighters could be given the opportunity to restore health care system, because the process was banned. After imposing, the rules have been banned.
“The provisions of the ceasefire do not really indicate any important needs that are stated in the report,” Wali added.
According to the report, up to this month, emergency and newborn care is available in seven of the 18 working across Gaza, 11 out of 11 field hospitals, and one community health center.
All medical facilities working in Gaza face “unconscious and crowded conditions” and severe shortage of health care equipment, including medicines and vaccines. The report added that more medical workers, “hungry, more work and sometimes under military attack”, are inclined towards those who are attacked, while the countless water -produced and other communications diseases. They also pay attention to matters.
HRW interviewed women living in Gaza during the war, worked with Gaza’s medical workers, and international medical staff, international humanitarian organizations and teams running with teams in Gaza. Were
Interviews paint a horrific picture of the effects of war on basic care during pregnancy and birth.
There are little information available about the survival rate of newborns or women who encountered serious complications during pregnancy, birth, or postpartum note. But the group identified the testimony of maternity health experts, who said that the abortion rate in Gaza increased by 300 % after the beginning of the war on October 7, 2023. It has also indicated UN reports that at least eight infants and newborns have died. From hypothermia due to lack of basic asylum.
The Israeli war of 90 % of Gaza’s residents has led to the displacement of 90 % of the displaced, many of whom were displaced many times. The report states that it has become impossible for pregnant women to secure health services, it has revealed that mothers and newborns have almost no access to post -birth care. Is
At the end of last year, Human Rights Watch concluded in a different report that Israel was committing “genocide operations” by denying Palestinians in Gaza. It also found that the use of Israel “Facilitation as a war method“Causes severe food insecurity.
Pregnant women have been particularly affected by lack of access to food and water, with critical consequences for their own health and fetus development. The report added that many pregnant women have reported a dehydration or unable to wash themselves.
“The repeated violations of Israeli authorities in Gaza, the international humanitarian law and human rights law, have had a significant and serious impact on pregnant women and girls and newborns,” Wali said. “Lonely ceasefire will not eliminate these horrific situations. Governments should immediately pressure Israel to make sure that pregnant women and girls, newborns and other people need health care needs. Yes
