JAKARTA - United Nations (UN) officials say more than 230,000 women and girls in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, including nearly 15,000 pregnant women, face limited access to reproductive health services due to Israeli military operations, despite a ceasefire agreement.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric quoted the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), warning "there is an increased risk of gender-based violence, child marriage, and exploitation of women and girls," as reported by Anadolu (23/1).
Furthermore, he said, the damage to health facilities, safe places and clinics, combined with displacement and flooding, had "severely limited access to psychosocial support and medical care."
He said UN humanitarian partners had reached more than 13,000 households since Sunday, adding they had distributed "hundreds of tents" along with mattresses, blankets, warm clothes, cooking equipment and solar lights.
According to him, capacity and funding limitations mean that current support only reaches about 40 percent of the 970 refugee locations in Gaza.
The Israeli genocide war in Gaza which began after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 south of Israel has caused the destruction of about 90 percent of Gaza's civilian infrastructure.
The Palestinian media WAFA reported on Thursday, the death toll from the Israeli aggression has reached 71,562 people, while 171,379 others were injured.
Medical sources said that since the October 10 ceasefire, at least 477 Palestinians have been killed and another 1,301 injured, while 713 bodies have been found among the rubble.
Israel has also sharply restricted the entry of food, materials for housing, and medical supplies into Gaza, where 2.4 million Palestinians live in dire conditions.
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