15/03/2026
At least 11,000 pregnant women have been affected by Israel's attacks on Lebanon, with 4,000 expected to give birth over the next three months, the UN has found.
“Many of these women have been forced from their homes, cut off from essential health services and forced to give birth in dangerous conditions, some even by the side of the road,” said Anandita Philipose, Lebanon representative for the UN's population fund, UNFPA.
At least 55 hospitals and clinics have been forced to close, either because they are in zones affected by Israeli mass evacuation orders, “or because there's been direct damage to them”, Ms Philipose added.
Israel has been intensifying and expanding its attacks on residential areas and infrastructure in Lebanon.
At least 826 people have been killed in Israeli strikes, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry, while hundreds of thousands of families have been forcibly displaced from their homes.
