🔺 Homes, schools & hospitals severely damaged
🔺 Roads reduced to dirt tracks
🔺 Civilians at grave risk of unexploded ordnance
🔺 Collapsed services

Yesterday, we carried out an assessment in #Gaza 's Khan Younis where, with United Nations partners, we saw profound destruction.

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حجم الدمار في #غزة لا يمكن تصوره.

مع إخلاء أجنحة الولادة من المرضى و احتراق وتدمير الإمدادات الصحية المنقذة للحياة خصوصاً للأمهات والحوامل، لم يعد للنساء الحوامل مكان يلجأن إليه للولادة بأمان.

ممثل صندوق الأمم المتحدة للسكان في فلسطين دومينيك ألين يصف الوضع بعد زيارته لخانيونس.

“It’s full of the smell of death.”

Until recently, pregnant women received life-saving care at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, #Gaza .

Now it sits empty and burning.

Let UNFPA Palestine representative Dominic Allen show you the destruction alongside a @UN team.

Life-saving medicines for pregnant women run low in south Gaza youtu.be/btlYfDG79-c?si… via YouTube
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“Most babies will die due to lack of incubators” Dr. Ahmed Al-Shaer, Deputy Head of the Incubator Care Unit at Al-Emirati hospital, describes the desperate situation
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See how UNFPA is responding unfpa.org/occupied-pales…
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Yesterday UNFPA returned again to Emirati Hospital in Rafah-delivering 2,000 vials of Oxytocin,for 20 days of life-saving maternal health services by heroic doctors and midwives. Despite exhaustion + fear, their resolve remains unyielding and their ask clear: #CeasefireNOW #Gaza

في خضم الأزمة الإنسانية، يتزايد خطر تفشي العنف القائم على النوع الاجتماعي بشكل كبير.

تواجه النساء والفتيات جائحة في ظل الأزمة الإنسانية تشمل زواج الأطفال والزواج القسري والعديد من أشكال العنف القائم على النوع الاجتماعي والعنف الجنسي.

انضموا إلينا وارفعوا أصواتكم ل #انهاء_العنف

The threat of famine is looming over Gaza unfpa.org/press/statemen…

In north Gaza, one in three children under two years of age are suffering acute malnutrition.

'That's a terrifying number' – UNICEF spokesperson

On his annual solidarity visit for #Ramadan
Thank you António Guterres for your immense support to the people of #Gaza and the region and the great shout out to UNRWA.
It is indeed the “backbone of all relief operations in #Gaza ”

There has been a lot of debate and finger-pointing about the challenges to getting aid to people in need in Gaza.

So, let’s settle this once and for all.

Hospitals in #Gaza are at breaking point.

Doctors at Kamal Adwan, the sole pediatric hospital in the north, are desperately trying to care for not only malnourished children but also those fleeing Al Shifa amid a military operation.

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“One day, we had 78 newborns. We can’t sit down for even a minute. It’s miserable” A midwife at Al-Helal Al Emirati Hospital in #Rafah describing the chaos & suffering of childbirth.

The situation of pregnant women in #Gaza is beyond belief and it demands an immediate #ceasefire

'I only have one underwear, and I have to wash it with dirty water and then use it again' A girl from #Gaza

Women and girls are resorting to unsafe ways of managing their periods amid a severe shortage of menstrual products.

See how @unfpa is responding: rb.gy/60z7up

#Famine  is imminent in the north of  #Gaza .
 
Pregnant women and new mothers face severe acute malnutrition and a constant struggle to keep themselves and their newborns alive.
 
A ceasefire and sustained humanitarian access can end this suffering.

1.1 million people in #Gaza are grappling with the harrowing depths of hunger and starvation; their food supplies and coping capacities have been utterly depleted.

We reiterate our call for an immediate #ceasefire and a scaling up of aid efforts to avert further catastrophe.

People in #Gaza are starving and #famine is imminent in the north.

Pregnant women and new mothers face a constant struggle to keep themselves and their newborns alive.

A ceasefire, safe, sustained and unhindered access of humanitarian aid is the only way to end this suffering.

Acute hunger and malnutrition in northern #Gaza have surpassed the famine threshold.

Pregnant women, new mothers and newborns are in a race against death to survive.

A #ceasefire and sustained access to supplies are their only hope for survival.

“I cut a piece of cloth to use as a sanitary pad.

Like many women and girls in #Gaza , Bakiza and her daughter are resorting to unsafe ways of managing their periods amid a severe shortage of menstrual products.

@unfpa is distributing menstrual hygiene products to support them.

#SaveGaza #CeasefireNOW