ActionAid International has warned that Gaza will become a graveyard for women and girls after 200 days of humanitarian crisis.

ActionAid explained, in a statement issued today, Thursday, that 70% of the martyrs were women and children, as 10,000 women were killed in Gaza, including about 6,000 mothers, according to UN Women.

It said: There is no safe place in Gaza from death and destruction, as at least 18 children were killed during the air strikes on Rafah at the weekend, according to reports issued, in addition to a pregnant woman whose baby was able to be saved by doctors through an emergency caesarean section.

It noted that particularly intense air strikes were launched in Rafah, Deir al-Balah and Gaza City, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which led to hundreds of thousands of people taking refuge there in fear for their lives.

The international foundation explained that women and girls have been affected by the crisis in Gaza in unique ways over the past 200 days. There are only three hospitals currently capable of providing maternity care out of 11 partially operating hospitals in the Strip, and pregnant women are forced to give birth without adequate care or medical supplies, including This includes antibiotics and painkillers, according to the United Nations Population Fund. Severe food shortages also leave many women malnourished, to the point where they are unable to breastfeed their newborns, while some pregnant mothers miscarry very late in their pregnancy as a result of malnutrition.

It continued: An estimated 690,000 women and girls are forced to deal with menstruation every month amid a severe shortage of menstrual supplies, clean water, soap, toilets and privacy, and a recent report issued by UNRWA indicates that women and girls are among the detainees who were arrested in Gaza. It also indicates that they were subjected to ill-treatment, including possible harassment and sexual violence, at the hands of Israeli forces.

Although experts warn that famine is imminent in the Gaza Strip, the aid entering the Gaza Strip is still less than the required amount. An analysis of data collected by UNRWA shows that the rate of aid trucks that entered the Gaza Strip on a daily basis during the month of April so far has reached 191 trucks through the Kerem Shalom and Rafah crossings, which is much lower than the rate of trucks that entered the Gaza Strip before October 7. 500 trucks were entering it daily, and only little aid was entering for a long time, to the point that Oxfam estimates that the Gaza Strip currently needs 1,500 trucks daily to compensate for the shortage.

Humanitarian workers continue to face unacceptable risks and dangers when providing life-saving aid in Gaza, and just a week after seven aid workers were tragically killed in an airstrike, UNICEF said one of its convoys was hit by live ammunition while waiting at a checkpoint. . Meanwhile, aid remains prevented from reaching the places where it is needed most.

Between 6 and 12 April, 41% of humanitarian missions to northern Gaza, where people are most at risk of famine, were rejected, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, while the World Health Organization said the latest mission to hospitals in northern Gaza was completed. It was only partially completed, and was completed due to severe delays at checkpoints and ongoing military actions.

It noted that if there is any hope of avoiding famine in Gaza, it is necessary to significantly and immediately increase the volume of humanitarian aid entering Gaza, and provide full access to it to deliver it to those who need it most.

It stressed the need to protect relief workers and infrastructure in accordance with international humanitarian law, and they should never be targeted, and all donor countries that have not yet resumed their funding for UNRWA must immediately refund UNRWA, as it is the largest active humanitarian organization in Gaza and represents a lifeline for the population. sector.

It called for a full investigation without delay into the mass grave discovered in the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, where 300 martyrs were buried, noting that the full extent of human rights violations and horror in Gaza has not yet been fully revealed.

It stressed that the amount of aid currently arriving in the Gaza Strip is still not at all sufficient, despite the dire and urgent need for that aid, so the volume of humanitarian relief must be increased significantly and immediately.