‘Five children in incubator’: HRW on danger for pregnant women, children in Gaza. Human rights news

Israel’s 15-month war on Gaza, as well as serious restrictions imposed on the flow of human aid and the attacks of Israeli forces on health facilities and the targeting of healthcare workers “threat” for pregnant women and infants. Born, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a new report.

Despite the ongoing ceasefire, women in Gaza are unlikely to improve, the group mentioned in the report published on Tuesday, as the Israeli law to the United Nations Relief and Working Agency Palestine Refugees (UNRWA ) And targets to take. The effect this week is expected to severely limit the distribution of human relief in the devastated region.

The group found that women in Gaza have been taken out of crowded hospitals, sometimes within hours of giving birth, to make a place for the wars of casualties. Al-Halel al-Imirati of Rafa has also been severely affected along with a doctor at the Maternity Hospital, which states that this facility had very few incubators and so many preterm children in this facility that doctors had four in an incubator or Five children were forced to insert. ,

“Most of them are not alive,” the doctor said.

Many infants have died due to lack of shelter between cold temperatures.

In the 56-Page report, HRW concluded that the rights of women and girls in the form of power occupied in Israel-Gaja have violated the rights of girls and girls, including the right to dignified care in pregnancy, delivery and postpartum periods, There is also rights, as well as rights. For newborn care.

The group also stressed that two pieces of law passed by the Israeli cashet last year and on Tuesday, threatened to “further increase the damage to maternal and newborn health”. Bills, which prevent UNRWA from working in Israel and keep the Eastern Jerusalem and Israeli government in touch with the agency, effectively apprise permits for their employees for UNRWA and providing very important assistance to Gaza. .

Belkis Vile, Associate Crisis, HRW’s Associate Crisis, Conflict and Arms Director, told Al Jazira that “despite the fact that the ceasefire can provide an opportunity for the healthcare system in Gaza, can start to be started to restore Is, because due to the influence of laws, they ban operations. The reality of UNRWA, the reality is that from these coming weeks, pregnant women and newborns can also suffer, which are already more.

Vile said, “The provisions of ceasefire do not actually address any important need mentioned in the report.”

According to the report, according to this month, emergency maternity and newborn care are available only in seven partially working hospitals, four out of 11 area hospitals and one community health center in Gaza.

All medical facilities working in Gaza face a severe shortage of “uncontrolled and congested conditions” and essential health care supply, including drugs and vaccines. The report stated that medical workers, “hunger, hungry, overwork and many times under the military attack”, are preparing victims of attacks to fall victim to attacks.

HRW conducted interviews with women who became pregnant during the war during the war, working with Gaza medical activists, and international medical workers working with international human organizations and agencies operating teams in Gaza.

Interviews paint a terrible picture of the effect of war on pregnancy and basic care during birth.

There is very little information available on the number of women dying during the survival rate of newborns or pregnancy, birth, or postpartum, HRW notes. But the group indicates testimony by maternity health experts, who reported that the abortion rate in Gaza had increased by 300 percent since the war started on October 7, 2023. It also indicates the UN reports that at least eight infants and newborns have died from hypothermia due to lack of infrastructure.

The Battle of Israel has given rise to an unprecedented displacement of some 90 percent of Gaza, many of which were displaced several times. This has made health services safely reaching for pregnant women, found in the report that mothers and newborns have almost no access to postpartum care.

Later last year, Human Rights Watch concluded in a separate report that Israel was doing “massacre functions” by denying clean water to Palestinians in Gaza. It was also found that the use of Israeli’s “starvation as a method of war” caused severe food insecurity.

Pregnant women are particularly affected by lack of food and water, significant consequences for their own health and for fetal development. The report said that many pregnant women have reported dehydration or are unable to wash themselves.

Vile said, “The clear and frequent violations of the International Human Law and Human Rights Act in Gaza have had special and intense effects on pregnant women and girls and newborns.” “The ceasefire alone will not eliminate these terrible circumstances. Governments should suppress Israel to immediately ensure that pregnant women and girls, newborns and other health care requirements are met. ,