"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 RightsIsrael 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."
"Building on PHRI's earlier findings, the reports place women's testimonies alongside health data and field reports, documenting 2,600 miscarriages, 220 pregnancy-related deaths, 1,460 premature births, over 1,700 underweight newborns, and over 2,500 infants requiring neonatal intensive care, between January and June 2025. Lama Bakri, from Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI), said: These figures represent a shocking deterioration from pre-war normalcy', and are the direct result of war trauma, starvation, displacement, and the collapse of maternal healthcare."
Health data and field reports document 2,600 miscarriages, 220 pregnancy-related deaths, 1,460 premature births, over 1,700 underweight newborns, and more than 2,500 infants needing neonatal intensive care between January and June 2025. Births in Gaza fell by 41% during the conflict period. War trauma, starvation, displacement and collapse of maternal healthcare are direct causes of deteriorating maternal and neonatal outcomes. Hospitals, ambulances and medical staff were repeatedly struck and siege conditions and sustained bombardment severed supply lines and restricted movement between facilities. These actions systematically dismantled health services and produced forced births in dangerous conditions. Conditions meet the legal criteria of the Genocide Convention.
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