In Gaza, no one escapes the war… not even those yet to be born. The suffocating blockade and relentless bombardment have left pregnant women facing the specter of famine, and their unborn children with a future threatened before life even begins.
In a scene that encapsulates the depth of the tragedy, approximately 60,000 pregnant women in Gaza suffer from acute malnutrition and a lack of basic medical care, according to media reports.
With a collapsed healthcare system, mothers are forced to give birth in tents or shelters, or in overwhelmed hospitals lacking even the most basic sterilization tools—some undergoing cesarean sections without anesthesia, screaming under the surgeon’s scalpel.
Medical organizations have documented over 128 cases of congenital deformities among newborns, caused by the absence of essential nutrition and supplements during pregnancy. Tiny bodies born underweight or missing vital organs.
But the tragedy does not stop here, the Ministry of Health has reported a 41% drop in the number of births during the first half of 2025—a warning bell for a lost generation that was never given the chance to be born, due to miscarriages, malnutrition, and the collapse of healthcare services.
These figures are not just numbers—they are damning testimonies of a war targeting the womb itself, choking life at its very roots.
And amid this inferno, the question remains: how many more children must be born deformed or die of hunger before the world acknowledges that what is happening in Gaza is a systematic genocide aiming to extinguish life itself?
Despite everything, Gaza’s women continue to give birth under siege, clutching their newborns to frail chests, offering the world a gasp of life from the heart of death… a gasp that cannot be silenced.