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Amnesty International report based on 41 interviews conducted between February 5 and 24, 2026, with women internally displaced in Gaza, including 8 cancer patients, 4 pregnant women, and 14 women who gave birth after the October 2025 ceasefire. Even after the ceasefire and improved aid flows, around 46% of essential medicines remain at zero stock, including drugs for managing contractions, anesthesia, pain management, and infections. The report also cites the March 2025 United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory finding that Israel systematically destroyed Gaza's sexual and reproductive healthcare system, amounting to acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention. Essential for gender and reproductive health researchers studying the compounded impact of the War on Gaza on Palestinian women, with specific post-ceasefire data on medicine shortages affecting maternal care and firsthand testimony from women who gave birth during the ceasefire period.
