Belkis Wille, directora asociada de Crisis, Conflictos y Armas de Human Rights Watch (HRW), habla sobre el último informe de su grupo, que acusa a Israel de infligir "un peligro grave y a veces mortal" a mujeres y niñas embarazadas y puérperas en Gaza durante 15 meses de guerra.

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Belkis Wille, Associate Crisis, Conflict and Arms Director for Human Rights Watch (HRW), has addressed the organization's latest report concerning the impact of Israeli actions on pregnant and postpartum women and girls in Gaza. This 50-page document outlines the collapse of Gaza's healthcare system due to hostilities and a blockade, significantly affecting maternal care. Interviews conducted with both healthcare workers and pregnant women highlight the absence of prenatal care, essential nutrition, and clean water in the region. These shortfalls have led to increased rates of miscarriage, stillbirth, and low birth weight among newborns. 

The report provides harrowing accounts from two Palestinian women who lost their fetuses due to explosive ordnance, which also claimed the lives of their partners. It highlights a 300-percent increase in miscarriages since the onset of hostilities. HRW's findings align with data from Gaza's health ministry, which reported the malnutrition-related deaths of 56 children and the deaths of eight infants from hypothermia.

The report also emphasizes the dire circumstances for newborns, many of whom suffer from conditions related to malnutrition and lack of clean water. Mothers face challenges in breastfeeding due to malnutrition, and are sometimes forced to mix contaminated water with formula, causing fatal diarrhea in infants. Furthermore, the lack of electricity and resources has led to overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at healthcare facilities, resulting in multiple infants being placed in a single incubator, heightening the risk of fatalities.



HRW: Israel pone en peligro a mujeres y niñas embarazadas y puérperas

Y francamente, estas son cifras asombrosas, impactantes en este informe. Es un informe de 50 páginas. Háblame de algunos de los datos y conclusiones más importantes que necesitamos conocer urgentemente. Así que, por supuesto, las hostilidades de Israel y Gaza, así como el bloqueo de Israel, han llevado realmente a un colapso del sistema de salud allí, y que está impactando a todos los civiles de Gaza, mujeres, niños y hombres. Pero que ese colapso del sistema sanitario está teniendo un impacto agudo en las mujeres embarazadas y en los recién nacidos. Y lo que encontramos en nuestras entrevistas con mujeres que han estado embarazadas desde que comenzaron las hostilidades, así como con trabajadores médicos, tanto internacionales como locales con base en Gaza, es que básicamente no hay atención prenatal para las mujeres en Gaza. Y además de la falta de acceso a la atención médica durante el embarazo, no tienen acceso nutritivo y regular a los alimentos. No tienen agua potable. Y eso tanto para beber como para lavarse. Si contraen una infección que, ya sabes, que puede poner en peligro no sólo su vida, sino la vida de su feto. Y todas estas condiciones juntas son condiciones para conducir a mayores tasas de abortos espontáneos, mayores tasas de mortinatos y también partos prematuros, que provocan bebés con bajo peso al nacer. Pero lo que vemos es que en este pequeño número de centros de salud que atienden la salud materna, se enfrentan al hacinamiento, condiciones insalubres, cortes de electricidad. Así que ni siquiera tienen suficientes incubadoras para los recién nacidos de bajo peso. bebés que nacen en este contexto. Sí, es realmente impactante. Y como todos sabemos, cuando una mujer está embarazada, está en su punto más vulnerable y hará cualquier cosa para proteger al bebé. Y sorprendentemente, en el informe, dice que dos mujeres palestinas dijeron a HRW que sus fetos murieron y que fueron heridas por armas explosivas que también mataron a sus parejas. Y estas historias son absolutamente desgarradoras. Y habla de algunos de los datos que descubriste específicamente en el frente aborto involuntario, que ha aumentado un 300 por ciento desde que comenzó la guerra. Esta cifra procede de trabajadores sanitarios y expertos sobre el terreno en Gaza. Por desgracia, es una realidad en los conflictos armados de todo el mundo. que las condiciones creadas por los conflictos armados pueden llevar a cosas como tasas más altas de abortos espontáneos y mortinatos. Pero creo que realmente vemos esto tan increíblemente agudo en el contexto de Gaza debido al colapso a gran escala del sistema sanitario, así como la falta de acceso a los alimentos, la falta de acceso al agua. Y es debido a estas condiciones que, como has dicho, las mujeres que están en una situación particularmente vulnerable no tienen forma de llevar a término su embarazo de forma segura. Y el Ministerio de Sanidad de Gaza ha informado de que 56 niños murieron de hambre. Absolutamente aterrador pensar que ocho niños y recién nacidos murieron de hipotermia. Y de nuevo, habla de las terribles situaciones sobre el terreno. Los recién nacidos, por supuesto, son especialmente vulnerables. Y lo que escuchamos de las madres son varias cosas. Una es que las mujeres están demasiado desnutridas para poder dar el pecho. Mujeres que no pueden encontrar agua limpia para mezclar con las fórmulas. Describen el hecho de poner agua sucia en un biberón, agitándola con la fórmula en polvo, y ni siquiera se mezcla con el agua porque el agua está muy contaminada en esas condiciones. Estos recién nacidos están teniendo diarrea, lo que puede ser fatal para ellos. Y de nuevo, por falta de suficientes incubadoras, los bebés con bajo peso al nacer corren un riesgo especial. Y la falta de incubadoras se debe a, ya sabes, la electricidad cortes, incubadoras y hospitales que fueron destruidos. Y hablé con dos médicos que me contaban esta horrible realidad que están poniendo múltiples bebés en una incubadora que es insalubre, potencialmente matándolos a todos.

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