AP PHOTOS: A pregnant woman under Israel's blockade in Gaza fears for her baby

AP PHOTOS: A pregnant woman under Israel’s blockade in Gaza fears for her baby

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Pregnant Palestinian woman Yasmine Siam undergoes an ultrasound scan at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. She suffered a miscarriage a few days later. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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Islam Qeshta, a 30-year-old pregnant Palestinian woman, arrives for a prenatal checkup at the MSF clinic in Muwasi, near Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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FILE – Displaced Palestinians fleeing Rafah amid ongoing Israeli military operations arrive in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

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Palestinian woman Yasmine Siam, who was pregnant but suffered a miscarriage a few days later, poses for a photo in her tent in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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Palestinian woman Yasmine Siam, who was pregnant but suffered a miscarriage a few days later, undergoes a prenatal checkup at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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Doctors weigh a Palestinian baby at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in Muwasi, near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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Shaima Al-Louh, 24, carries her 3-month-old daughter, Jilan Zarrouk, at a makeshift tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Muwasi, on the outskirts of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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Huda Kabaja, 26, holds her 3-week-old daughter while receiving medication for malnutrition at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in Muwasi, near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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Shaima Al-Louh, 24, stores canned food for her children at her tent a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians in Muwasi, on the outskirts of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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3-month-old, Jilan Zarrouk sleeps at a makeshift tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Muwasi, outskirts of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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Doctors weigh a Palestinian baby at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in Muwasi, near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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A boy carries the body of 15-day-old premature infant Sila Zidane, who died from sepsis a few days after her twin sister, following their premature birth to mother Yasmine Zakout, to be buried at the cemetery in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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A nurse holds a prematurely born baby suffering from respiratory problems inside an incubator at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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Islam Sheih Al-Eid, 27, who is six months pregnant, undergoes an ultrasound scan at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in Muwasi, near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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A hospital health worker carries the body of 15-day-old premature infant Sila Zidane, who died from sepsis a few days after her twin sister, following the premature birth of the twins to their mother, Yasmine Zakout, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

By ABDEL KAREEM HANA

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip has made pregnancy and childbirth more dangerous for Palestinian women and their babies. It’s become worse since Israel seven weeks ago cut off food, medicine and supplies for the territory’s more than 2 million people.

According to the United Nations Population Fund, up to 20% of Gaza’s estimated 55,000 pregnant women are malnourished, and half face high-risk pregnancies. In February and March, at least 20% of newborns were born prematurely or suffering from complications or malnutrition.

Comprehensive records of miscarriages and stillbirths can’t be obtained. But records at one hospital show miscarriages in January and February were double the same period in 2023.

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