Reproductive violence, this needs to stop

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“Israel’s war in Gaza has led to a 41% fall in births in the territory and high numbers of maternal deaths, miscarriages, newborn mortality and premature births, two reports on the impact of the conflict on pregnant women, babies and maternity care reveal.
Two reports by Physicians for Human Rights, in collaboration with the Global Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, and Physicians for Human Rights–Israel (PHRI) document how the war has led to high figures for maternal and neonatal mortality and forced births in dangerous conditions and systematically dismantled health services – consequences of “a deliberate intention of preventing births among Palestinians, meeting the legal criteria of the genocide convention,” researchers said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/14/gaza-war-fall-in-births-reproductive-violence

Have you considered it’s not fucking Isreal withholding it. Ffs.

Random points? You don’t join any dots do you.

Please explain how your points relate to Israel withholding medical care from pregnant Palestinian women,

Hamas have repeatedly chosen co-opting humanitarian aid for their own benefit.

But it is??

Is Hamas blocking maternity units from gaining access to Gaza, No it is Israel who is not allowing entry of these units for months now

has Hamas banned aid agencies from accessing Gaza.? No

Has Israel banned aid agencies from accessing Gaza? Yes

who blocked access of close to one million bottles of formula to Gaza? Israel

Again
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/unicef-says-israel-blocking-one-million-syringes-needed-vaccinate-gaza-children-2025-11-11/

GENEVA, Nov 11 (Reuters) - UNICEF said on Tuesday essential items including syringes to vaccinate children and bottles for baby formula are being denied entry into Gaza by Israel, preventing aid agencies from reaching those in need in the war-devastated territory.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10038058/

https://suhbah.com/articles/bottle-feeding-shaming-concession-in-islam-for-baby-formula-and-early-weaning/

These are interesting articles with reference to this argument. We don't know the extent of vaccine hesitancy or formula milk aversion in a religious society like Gaza. Again these factors are driven to the background when looking at the use of such things in society.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/29/world/middleeast/palestinians-covid-vaccines-hesitancy.html

There is a natural vaccine hesitancy within the Palestinian territories but suddenly that hesitancy seems to be of little concern when you can Israel of blocking them?

I’ve lived in the middle east, it can get cold but rarely sub freezing, weather in Gaza this week is between 13-22 degrees. Its chilly but not freezing, the information is easy to check. . You have to use common sense here.

It’s awful that a child died but I’m really sceptical of some of these claims. I’ve seen pictures of emaciated children with perfectly healthy mothers while people will claim the child is starving when they clearly have a pretty awful medical condition. Few mothers will eat well while their children starve. It makes it hard to sort fact from fiction.

There was the horrible sex for aid thing no-one wanted to talk about. Palestinian men exchanging sex for aid.

https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/women-in-gaza-say-they-were-promised-food-money-or-work-in-exchange-for-sexual-interactions/

Double checked, coldest it got in Gaza in the last 2 weeks was 8 degrees, which is definitely cold. But the highest recorded temperature was 28 degrees.

Your point? ??Did vaccine hesitancy create a force field blocking vaccinations at the border? No Israel blocked syringes getting in

GENEVA, Nov 11 (Reuters) - UNICEF said on Tuesday essential items including syringes to vaccinate children and bottles for baby formula are being denied entry into Gaza by Israel,preventing aid agencies from reaching those in need in the war-devastated territory.

what has this point got to do with Israel blocking maternity units from accessing Gaza ??

Just shame

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/17/child-mortality-crisis-continues-in-gaza-with-more-than-100-killed-since-ceasefire

here’a report of another recent death in the British Medical Journal, gives an idea of the conditions

“Gazans are struggling to survive in makeshift shelters after widespread heavy rain, flooding, and frigid temperatures caused sewage to overflow and brought high rates of respiratory infections and hypothermia.

It has been reported that at least 25 people died in recent weeks as a result of the extreme weather conditions, including a 29 day old baby who died from hypothermia.

The baby boy died two hours after arriving at the Médecins Sans Frontières supported paediatric ward of Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. Despite the staff’s best efforts he could not be saved. Bilal Abu Saada, MSF’s nursing team supervisor at the hospital, said the tragedy was not an isolated event: “Children are losing their lives because they lack the most basic items for survival.

“Babies are arriving to the hospital cold, with near death vital signs. Even our best efforts are not enough. They say the war has ended, but people are still having to fight for their lives.”
In the past month the arrival of winter, alongside the prevention of vital aid entering Gaza that could help combat the poor conditions, has further deteriorated an already desperate situation..”

https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2687

MSF also warned that the “harsh winter weather combined with the already dire living conditions is increasing health risks.”
Claire Nicolet, MSF’s emergency coordinator in Gaza, told The BMJ on 30 December that the aid agency was already receiving many patients, including young children, with hypothermia and respiratory infections, just a few weeks into the season.
She said, “The problem is that the winter is still at the beginning: January and February will be even more difficult for the population.
“The fact that there is a [partial] blockade [on aid] still, and the number of trucks entering is insufficient, means that very often we don’t receive enough for the population in terms of blankets and hygiene items.”
She also emphasised that the violence has not ended. “ We can hear bombing, we can hear airstrikes. And so the population is still being displaced again and again.”

From the same article

“The UN reported that Israel had blocked 107 requests for the entry of relief materials such as blankets, winter clothes, and tools and material to maintain and operate water, sanitation and hygiene services in the first month since the ceasefire agreement.6
“As Gaza is battered by heavy rains and storms, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians continue to struggle in flooded and broken makeshift tents. MSF calls on Israeli authorities to urgently allow a massive scale-up of aid into the strip,” MSF said in a statement.

@Bringemout You clearly haven’t read any of the links and excerpts from reports supplied by the OP and your comments are completely irrelevant to the thread.
What is your motive for posting?

The motive and sentiment of the overnight posters is pretty clear.

What is the motive?

Fully expect to wake up one morning to find that someone has posted to say Netenyahu Smotrich and Gvir are in fact a trio of fluffy bunnies.

Your article is from 2021 @mids2019
it has no relevance to Israel blocking medical aid this year specifically syringes for childhood vaccinations as detailed by the UN
curious as to your motivation for posting can you explain ?

the constant heartless smearing of innocent Palestinians never ceases to amaze me.

The irony.

There’s not much evidence of that, but there is a ton of evidence of Israel blocking aid.

Netanyahu has also confessed to paying armed criminal gangs in Gaza to loot humanitarian aid was allowed in.

So of the footage we have seen of looting, it is unknown how much was Hamas and how much was the Gaza crime gangs Netanyahu paid to loot the aid.

Yes, this is one of the horrors that happen in war when an artificial food shortage is deliberately imposed on a besieged civilian population. It’s medieval level warfare.