Published on 17 January 2026, this report on reproductive violence in Gaza was written by researchers from Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and the Global Human Rights Clinic (GHRC) at the University of Chicago Law School.

In September 2024, a UN Commission of Inquiry found that Israel had engaged in four of the five acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention during its war on Gaza, including acts intended to prevent births, with attacks on sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities affecting an estimated 545,000 women and girls of reproductive age. This report affirms those findings, documenting how Israeli attacks on maternity and neonatal healthcare, combined with restrictions on food, medicine, and humanitarian access, have undermined the ability of women to give birth safely and of infants to survive.

Read the report here.