Palestine

PRESS RELEASE Cairo – April 10, 2025 – UNFPA– The situation in Gaza has become unbearable for women and girls. What was once a fragile ceasefire—a faint beacon of hope for peace and recovery—has now vanished. As Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid extends into its second month, the crisis has spiraled into catastrophe. Women and families are simply fighting to survive. Since the resumption of hostilities on 18 March, more than 500 children and 270 women have been killed, a devastating testament to the indiscriminate brutality of this war. Nearly two-thirds of Gaza is now a declared ‘no-go zone.’ As women-led organizations reported to UN Women, "nowhere is safe". Uprooted...

PRESS RELEASECairo – March 25, 2025 – UNFPA – The ongoing aid blockade on Gaza is severely undermining access to essential health care for women and girls, as supplies run dry and hospitals once again come under attack. This marks the longest suspension of aid to Gaza since 7 October 2023.In March 2025, the Ministry of Health reported critical shortages of three essential maternal health drugs: medicines used to induce or augment labour; blood plasma to treat women who are hemorrhaging, and medicine to treat pre-eclampsia- all vital to preventing maternal deaths and complications.Meanwhile, 54 ultrasounds to monitor fetal health; nine incubators that keep premature and low-birth-weight newborns alive; and...

In return for their heroic role and their partnership with men in all areas of the liberation struggle, women are 'rewarded' with a worrying quality of life and rights situation.