Women-led organizations in Gaza describe how women boil discarded food scraps to feed their children, and how they risk being killed when searching for food and water, according to UN Women.
"Women and girls in Gaza face the impossible choice of either starving to death in their camps, or venturing out to search for food and water with an extreme risk of being killed", says the head of the UN agency Sima Bahous in a statement.
More than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in the war, many of them mothers who took care of children and the elderly. Women are now undergoing pregnancies without food and are forced to give birth without water or medical care, writes UN Women.
"Their children are starving to death before their eyes. This is dreadful, conscienceless and unacceptable. It is inhuman", continues Bahous and demands unimpeded access for humanitarian aid on a large scale as well as a permanent ceasefire.
Due to the Israeli blockade of food and aid to Gaza, over two million Palestinians face what the UN aid organizations call a deadly wave of starvation and malnutrition.
