Pregnant women in Gaza describe malnutrition and extreme distress caused by Israel's blockade

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This cannot be allowed to continue. What can we as mothers do?

www.bbc.com/news/articles/c626ljrp21yo.amp

https://www.thejournal.ie/pregnant-women-in-gaza-malnutrition-6802544-Aug2025/

www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/07/01/israel-limits-entry-of-baby-formula-in-gaza-as-infants-die-of-hunger_6742899_4.html

Imagine what it must be like to be pregnant in Gaza at present.
Lack of medical facilities, lack of food, clean water, appropriate accommodation, fears about your delivery but also imagine the distress the mothers must feel when bombs are heard going off around them. All this will have an impact on the unborn child.

Wait for someone heartless and ignorant to come along and say why did women get pregnant?

If they did want to avoid pregnancy, I can’t imagine they have had access to contraception.

Why would you choose to become pregnant in the last months in Gaza? Is it wrong saying that there is choice in childbirth and family size? I worry about a culture where women are becoming pregnant in a horrific war zone and what patriarchal pressures are being placed on them? Maybe Hamas are pleased because these poor women and children can add to their propaganda campaign?

You know women the world over get pregnant without planning it, for various reasons?

Including, throughout the centuries, in Britain.

Your post, in the context of the op, is beyond despicable.

Yes, the long term consequences for the children exposed to the level of threat and trauma in Gaza will be extreme. I think about my own children when I see them and I cannot imagine the stress their parents must feel trying and not being able to keep them safe.
i think of how hard labour is and the demands of looking after a new baby even with warm homes, clean water, and cannot imagine how Palestinian mothers in Gaza are possibly coping, Imagine bringing a new baby home to a dirty tent with unclean water under the threat of malnutrition or bombing. What the civilian population is being put through is horrifying and inhumane
The Israeli government needs to cease its aggression now. The situation is dystopian in the extreme

Can our governments not put pressure on the neighbouring countries to at least give sanctuary to pregnant women and their children? In fact, all women and children.

Beyond shameful comment, I doubt contraceptives are available in Gaza given that baby formula and medical equipment are routinely blocked by Israel

People have a choice of not getting pregnant by not having sex. There must be pressures applied to such women and I really don't think in all cases it is a free choice.

They are being starved to death I highly doubt contraception is readily available.

Op I highly doubt you’re going to get much support on here. Anytime a post goes up it’s detailed by those who don’t believe a genocide is happening.

I do wonder why more is not being done to prevent a civilian population being targeted like fish in a barrel.

Shit stuff happens across time and place. Unbelievably shit stuff.

Honestly we all get by by ignoring it. Seems hypocritical to pretend to be all fuzzy and warm by obsessing over this.

You dont know much about people, do you?

I know, and think will probably log off after reading the charming comments by @mids2019 , but I think as women and mothers we can try at least to highlight what is happening, people won’t be able to say they didn’t know

What sort of man would have sex with a starving woman, knowing she would be likely to get pregnant, in a war zone? It defies belief. I don't think contraception is the issue here.

Some charities are fundraising for mobile pregnancy units like this one.

https://www.christians4palestine.org/activities-and-bds/mobile-maternity-unit-for-gaza/

How are people having sex in such horrendous traumatic conditions? It’s a genuine question. I never understand it.

And another disgusting comment

Sex is one of the few human comforts left.

Pure ignorance and hate. If it’s not happening on their doorsteps they don’t care.

If humans didn't still want sex in depressing situations the human race wouldn't have made it out of the bronze age

Thanks @TooBigForMyBoots

So because there is a war going on, people can’t have sex? Statics show that more births happening during a war. There isn’t anything to do, you could die at any minute so the only free and comforting thing to do is be intimate with your spouse or whoever. After the soldiers came back from the WW2 there was a huge baby boom in the UK. It’s not rocket science to understand why.

I am wondering why you only mention the Israeli government in terms of the war ending?

That obviously shows your motivation for starting this thread.

It is well know that women and children suffer the most in every war and are also suffering in other wars right now as well.

Getting pregnant during a war is reckless stupidity, but that is unlikely to be a free choice of the woman in a society where marital rape and domestic violence has no consequence, and will be driven by Hamas political motives.

Put the blame where it’s due.

Read the many biographies from survivors in concentration camps. That will inform you.