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We are seizing every opportunity provided by the ceasefire in Gaza to reach women and girls in need and alleviate their suffering. UNFPA is already delivering lifesaving supplies and services to displaced Gazans as they rebuild their lives from the rubble of a 15-month-long conflict. In the week after the ceasefire announcement, forty trucks carrying UNFPA assistance and critical supplies, including Dignity Kits, Emergency Birth Kits, and winter items arrived in Gaza. This month, we hope to increase the number of aid trucks we can send to Gaza — but we can’t do that without your support.
The recent ceasefire in Gaza brings a lot of hope, but unfortunately, it does not mean an end to the suffering of the one million women and girls in Gaza. “Our whole life became a tragedy,” 15-year-old Mariam told us after 15 months of war in Gaza. “The lack of medicine, poor food, contaminated water — and we were displaced from one place to another, living in tents.”
Fewer than half of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are still functioning, depriving women and girls, including an estimated 150,000 pregnant women and new mothers, of access to critical healthcare. They have also lost homes and loved ones, and lack the very basics to survive — food, water, adequate shelter and protection. As winter solidifies and temperatures plunge, displaced families will have to make difficult choices about which necessities they can survive without for another day.
We condemn the violence in Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel, and welcome the humanitarian ceasefire, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages by Hamas, and an end to the violence. The suffering must end and peace must prevail. Thank you for being there for women and girls. — USA for UNFPA |
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