Destruction of Gaza’s health infrastructure, combined with restrictions on food, medical supplies including baby formula, has created an environment in which the fundamental biological processes of reproduction and survival have been systematically destroyed, resulting in known and foreseeable harm, pain, suffering, and death
Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s maternity care has led to miscarriages, neonatal deaths, and denied births, an issue largely absent from global gender-based violence campaigns.
The Director General of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Munir al-Barsh, said there has been a sharp rise in miscarriages alongside a dramatic decline in birth rates across the territory.
Israel’s two-year-long onslaught against Gaza of toxic gases, heavy metals, forced starvation have led to a nightmare scenario of miscarriages, neonatal deaths, congenital deformities…