Pregnant, displaced and living in a tent. This is the situation in which 50,000 Gazan women find themselves with hardly any resources left. “I sleep on the floor, there is no bed,” explains one of them. “I have listened to women who have given birth in latrines next to the tents where they live,” denounces Pacale Coissar, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the Gaza Strip.

During the next 30 days 5,500 women will give birth in the Palestinian enclave. Of them, it is expected that 840 will suffer complications. This is what happened to Mona, who denounces that “there was no hygiene or adequate care” when she gave birth. Her baby is one of the 20,000 children who have reached the world there since the conflict escalated.

Births that occur in the midst of misery, as Ruth Conde, an MSF pediatric nurse, who has seen it with her own eyes, tells laSexta Noticias. “What our team found is a health system that is completely collapsedeither. HE discharged women one hour after giving birth or after four or five hours after having a cesarean section,” he explains.

This, with the dangers that it entails for mothers: “The risk of bleeding, lack of sutures, that wound can open…”, lists the health worker. And that, for the women who manage to reach the health centers, because others “They have not been able to get to the hospital either because there was no space, because there was no means of transportation, because there is no security,” according to Conde. In fact, two mothers die every hour because of the conflict.