Women and children have disproportionately been bearing the brunt of the worsening crisis in Gaza. More than 4,000 children have been killed.

While there are humanitarian emergencies around the world that are negatively impacting children, new reporting from The Washington Post show precisely how urgent and dire the conflict in Gaza is for kids. Just take a look:

Here’s where things stand as of this morning:

• All but one of the hospitals in Gaza city and northern Gaza are reportedly out of service due to the lack of power, medical supplies, oxygen, food, and water.


• 32 patients, including three premature babies, have reportedly died amid dire conditions.


• Among the patients at heightened risk of death are reportedly 36 babies in incubators and a number of kidney dialysis patients.

With 5,000 women expected to give birth this month alone, more pregnant women and newborns will be thrust into fatally dangerous conditions in short order.

UNFPA is helping lead efforts to reach the 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza — and these critical efforts are being fueled by your generous gifts. As truckloads slowly enter Gaza, we’re delivering crucial medicines, safe birth kits, and medical equipment to ensure safe deliveries.

What’s been delivered to Gaza is only a fraction of what’s needed, though, so we’re appealing to you for an emergency gift today:

With support from your generous gifts, UNFPA remains committed to delivering life saving care, medical supplies, and health services to pregnant women, newborns, and all those affected by these unspeakable conditions.

Two truckloads of UNFPA-provided reproductive health supplies arrived in Gaza earlier this month containing crucial medicine and kits to ensure safe births, including equipment and anesthesia for C-sections. These are being distributed to hospitals across Gaza, with thousands of clean delivery kits going directly to pregnant women in health facilities, shelters, and other locations.

Will you make an impact on the lives of pregnant women living through warfare by making an emergency gift today? We cannot stand by while the humanitarian crisis worsens in Gaza.

UNFPA condemns the violence in Israel and Gaza and echoes the UN Secretary-General’s call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, for the immediate and unconditional release of hostages by Hamas, and for the delivery of sustained humanitarian relief at scale that meets the needs of the people of Gaza.

Thank you for being there for women and girls.

— USA for UNFPA