The United Nations Population Fund in Palestine revealed that there are 50,000 pregnant women in the Gaza Strip who cannot obtain basic health services.

The Fund added in a statement on the “X” platform: “50,000 pregnant women in the Gaza Strip cannot obtain health services. 5,500 of them will give birth during the month of October.”

The Fund stressed that these women “need urgent health care and protection,” and urged all parties to “abide by their obligations under international humanitarian law and international human rights law.”

The fund's director, Dominic Allen, said in an interview with the American network "CNN", and published on the "X" platform, "The health care system itself in Gaza is in a sensitive situation. It is under attack, and is on the verge of collapse."

He added, "These pregnant women, whom we are extremely concerned about, have nowhere to go," stressing that they face "unimaginable" challenges.

He continued: "Imagine going through this process in those final stages and the last three months of pregnancy before giving birth, with possible complications, without clothes, without hygiene and support, without knowing what will happen to them the next day, the next hour, and the next minute."

He stressed that "the stories coming from the hospitals were horrific, and that one of the midwives in the maternity hospital in Gaza told him that since the beginning of the aggression, some midwives were not even able to reach the maternity ward to provide assistance due to the unsafe environment."

Allen stressed the need to "allow aid and humanitarian supplies to pass into Gaza," stressing that "a humanitarian corridor must be opened, and humanitarian law must be adhered to. Therefore, pregnant women must receive these life-saving health services."