Gaza Women Face Acute Humanitarian Crisis
Recent Developments
01April 2026: UN Women said more than 38,000 women and girls had been killed in Gaza, nearly 11,000 had been injured, and nearly 790,000 women and girls were facing crisis-level food insecurity or worse.
02October 2025: UN Women said over one million women and girls required food aid and around 250,000 needed urgent nutrition support, including pregnant and breastfeeding women.
032025: UNFPA said 46,300 pregnant women were facing crisis hunger and 690,000 menstruating women and girls needed 10.3 million menstrual pads per month.
04July 2025: UNFPA warned that aid restrictions had depleted menstrual hygiene supplies and forced the closure or severe scaling back of safe spaces for women and girls.
Interventions
- UNFPA distributions of menstrual pads and hygiene kits in Gaza, including 6.1 million pads and 50,800 hygiene kits since the war began.
- UN humanitarian advocacy and assistance focused on food, reproductive health care, sanitation, protection from gender-based violence, and emergency nutrition support for pregnant and breastfeeding women.
What Works
- Reliable delivery of menstrual hygiene supplies, soap, and private sanitation facilities reduces health and protection risks for women and girls in displacement settings.
- Maintaining access to reproductive, antenatal, and postnatal care for pregnant and breastfeeding women is critical to reducing malnutrition and maternal-newborn health harms.
- Restoring humanitarian access and basic water, sanitation, and health infrastructure is necessary to reduce disease, hunger, and GBV exposure in Gaza.
How to Help
- Support humanitarian agencies working on women’s health, nutrition, sanitation, and protection in Gaza.
- Back organizations that provide menstrual hygiene items, safe spaces, and reproductive health services for displaced women and girls.
- Advocate for sustained humanitarian access and funding for Gaza relief operations.
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Organizations Helping(10)
Anera tackles Gaza’s water crisis by building and repairing water infrastructure, including reservoirs, networks, wells, pumping stations, and reverse osmosis desalination systems. It also connects health facilities to water, installs sanitation facilities, provides WASH education, and in emergencies fuels desalination plants and pumping stations, refills communal tanks, and delivers bottled water.
UN Women supports women and girls in Gaza through emergency food assistance, distribution of non-food items such as sanitary products and baby formula, gender-based violence case management, sheltering and reintegration support, psychosocial support, legal awareness, and cash-for-work programming. It also partners with women-led organizations and humanitarian actors such as the World Food Programme, the Egyptian Red Crescent, and the Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization to deliver dignity kits, winter clothing, and other urgently needed supplies.
In Palestine, the organization works with local Women’s Rights Organizations to reach marginalized women facing violence, instability, food insecurity, and unemployment. In Gaza and the West Bank, it supports women and children with shelter, warm clothing, hygiene kits, food, and water through local partnerships. Its approach is to strengthen local women-led groups so aid reaches women more effectively during conflict and displacement.
UNFPA tackles Sudan’s health crisis by providing maternal and reproductive health services, emergency obstetric support, supplies for safe delivery, and protection services for women and girls affected by displacement and violence. In a collapsed health system, its work prioritizes mobile and facility-based reproductive healthcare, support for pregnant women, and services for survivors of gender-based violence.
