this is quite a tale showing how far israeli influence reaches;

For 18 months, and especially since Israel closed the Gaza crossings in early March – banning the entry of necessary medications, medical equipment, food and fuel – the level of catastrophic malnutrition for pregnant and postpartum women and their newborns has risen sharply.

This is compounded by the systematic destruction of reproductive, prenatal and maternity care by Israeli forces – which a recent United Nations Commission of Inquiry press release said amounts to “two categories of genocidal acts in the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention, including deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians and imposing measures intended to prevent births.”

In December 2023, Israeli forces targeted and destroyed the largest fertility clinic in Gaza.

More than 4,000 frozen embryos and 1,000 sperm samples and unfertilized eggs were destroyed in the attack.

The UN commission stated that the attack was intentional.

In January, Al Mezan, a human rights group in Gaza, released a report examining the “near-total disruption of maternal healthcare directly caused by Israel’s destruction of hospitals, clinics and pharmacies, compounded by the lack of medical supplies, equipment and electricity.”

Women, the group states, “especially pregnant and nursing mothers, are deprived of critical antenatal, postnatal and obstetric care, as well as essential nutritional support and hygiene products, putting their lives at grave risk.”............more..........