Report Warns Gaza’s Mothers Face ‘Reproductive Violence’ under Israeli Genocide

A new report has warned that Israel’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip is inflicting catastrophic harm on pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and newborns, leaving pregnancy increasingly dependent on “luck rather than care.”

Published by the UK-based Palestinian Return Centre (PRC), the report, Pregnancy Under Fire: Reproductive Violence and the Destruction of Maternal Life in Gaza, draws on data from United Nations agencies and international humanitarian and medical organizations to document what it describes as the systematic destruction of maternal healthcare in the besieged enclave.

According to the report, the consequences of the genocide will extend far beyond the current military assault, with malnutrition, forced displacement, and psychological trauma likely to shape the health and development of an entire generation of Palestinian children.

A War that Begins before Birth

The report argues that the impact of Israel’s military campaign reaches into the earliest stages of life, affecting children before they are even born.

Thousands of pregnant women, it says, are carrying pregnancies under conditions of repeated displacement, bombardment, hunger, and the near-total collapse of healthcare services. [MORE]