‘Five Babies in Incubator’: HRW O danger for pregnant women, babies in Gaza | Human rights news

Israel a 15-month war against Gaza, as well as serious limitations that imposed the flow humanitarian aid and the attacks of Israeli forces on health facilities and be targeting Health workersThey have led to “dangerous danger” for pregnant women and babies, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a new report.

Despite the liquid cease-fireInsecure conditions under which women in gauze of birth are unlikely to improve, a group was recorded in a report published on Tuesday, as Israeli legislation focused on United Nations Aid and Work Agency for Refugees Palestine (UNRWA) and the entry into force this week is expected to seriously limit the delivery of humanitarian relief to the devastated territory.

The group revealed that women in Gaza hurried from overcrowded hospitals, sometimes within a few hours of childbirth to make places for war victims. The care of newborns also had a hard time influenced, with one doctor at the Al-Helal Al-Echmal maternity hospital, saying that the object had so few incubator and so many previous babies that they were forced to put “four or five babies in one incubator” there “

“Most of them don’t survive,” the doctor added.

Several babies died of a lack of shelter in the middle of a freezing temperature.

On 56 pages reportHRW concluded that Israel – as a occupation power in Gaza – violated the rights of pregnant women and girls, including the right to dignified care in pregnancy, childbirth and the period after childbirth, as well as the right to care for the newborn.

The group also emphasized that the two lawsuits that Israeli Knesset had passed last year and entered into force on Tuesday threatening to “further exacerbate the damage to mothers and newborns”. The accounts, which ban UNRWA from business in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem and Israeli Government from contact with the agency, execute the UNRWA to get permissions for their staff and provide the necessary help of Gazi.

Belkis Wille, an associate crisis, director of the conflict and weapons of HRW, told Al Jazeera that “despite the fact that the break of the fire could give the opportunity to start the health care system in Gaza, due to the laws that enter into force, prohibitions of operations from operations UNRWA, the reality is that these next weeks can lead to pregnant women and infants who suffer even more than they already have. “

“The provisions of the certificate do not actually resolve any significant need listed in the report,” Wille added.

According to the report, since this month, the care for emergency and the care of newborns is available only in seven of the 18 partially functional hospitals in Gaza, four of the 11 field hospitals and one community health center.

All medical institutions that operate in Gaza face “insurmountable and overcrowded conditions” and a serious lack of basic health supply, including medicine and vaccines. And medical workers, “hungry, too busy and sometimes under military attack,” strive to be prone to victims of attack, while also dealing with countless cases of water and other infectious diseases, the report added.

HRW interviews with women who were pregnant while living in Gaza during the war, medical workers from Gaza and international medical staff who worked with international humanitarian organizations and agencies operating teams in Gaza.

Interviews paint a terrible image of the impact of war on access to basic care during pregnancy and birth.

Little information is available on the survival rate of newborns or the number of women who have serious complications or dying during pregnancy, birth or postpartum, HRW notes. However, the group indicates a testimony of a professional for motherhood health who reported that the abortion rate in Gaza increased by up to 300 percent since the war began on October 7, 2023. Also indicated reports that at least eight newborns and newborns had died hypothermia Due to the lack of basic shelter.

The Israeli war led to an unprecedented displacement of about 90 percent of Gaza residents, many of which were displaced several times. This made it impossible for pregnant women to safely approach health services, he found a report, noting that mothers and newborns had almost did not have access to postnatal care.

At the end of last year, Human Rights Watch concluded in another report that Israel had committed “Works of genocide“Neglecting clean water to Palestinians in Gaza. It has also been found to be Israel “starvation as a method of warfare“She led to severe food uncertainty.

Pregnant women particularly influenced the lack of access to food and water, with critical consequences for their own health and fetal development. Many pregnant women have reported dehydration or are unable to wash, the report is added.

“Israeli authorities” relaxed violations of international humanitarian law and the Law on Human Rights in Gaza have had a particular and acute influence on pregnant women and girls and newborns, “Wille said.” Only the end of fire will not end these terrible conditions. Governments should press Israel to urgently ensure that the needs of pregnant women and girls, newborns and others who require health care. “