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The genocide is still taking Gaza’s mothers

Al Jazeera · · 1124 words · By Shahed Abu AlShaikh
Healthcare system collapse Humanitarian crisis in Gaza Maternal Suffering
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9 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“In Gaza, where 22,000 women have been killed in two and a half years”
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The claim states 22,000 women were killed. However, Oxfam reports 'more than 6,000 women' killed over 12 months, while another source mentions 'more than 38,000 women and girls' killed since October 2023. The specific figure of 22,000 is not consistently supported across the provided evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gaza most commonly refers to: Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea Gaza City, a city in the Gaza Strip Gaza may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the West Bank) that make up the State of Palestine in the Southern Levant region of West A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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“Maternal death rates during childbirth increased threefold during the genocide.”
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Multiple sources (UN and other reports) confirm that the maternal health system has been decimated and there have been sharp rises in maternal deaths and newborn fatalities.
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web search NEUTRAL — Gaza's health system for mothers and newborns has been "decimated", the UN said on Thursday, with Israeli attacks destroying almost all hospitals, cutting off medical supplies and driving sharp rises …
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/12/1166569
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web search NEUTRAL — 5. Given what we already know from past conflicts, what patterns are emerging in terms of maternal health risks? Past conflicts have shown that maternal mortality, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths typ…
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2025/impact-war-mate…
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web search NEUTRAL — Israel's war in Gaza has led to a 41% fall in births in the territory and high numbers of maternal deaths, miscarriages, newborn mortality and premature births, two reports on the impact of the ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/14/gaza-war-fall-…
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“A recent report documented 220 Palestinian women dying while giving birth in Gaza between January and June 2025.”
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A specific web search result explicitly documents that between January and June 2025, there were 220 pregnancy-related deaths in the Gaza Strip.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Reports of human rights violations against Palestinians by Israel claim that Israel is guilty of killings, detention (both of Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories) restrictions on Pale…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_agains…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a Timeline of events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict during 2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli–Palest…
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“Mothers had to go through the pain of watching 70,000 children languish due to malnutrition.”
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Both the World Food Programme (WFP) and other reports confirm that more than 70,000 children in Gaza are suffering from severe/clinical malnutrition.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gaza most commonly refers to: Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea Gaza City, a city in the Gaza Strip Gaza may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the West Bank) that make up the State of Palestine in the Southern Levant region of West A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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“More than 150 mothers had to bury their children who succumbed to the famine.”
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Al Jazeera reports that at least 154 children have died due to starvation, and NPR reports over 130 people died from famine and malnutrition, supporting the claim of more than 150 children (when combined with other reported infant deaths).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gaza Freedom Flotilla vessels and convoys have attempted to break the blockade of Gaza since 2010. The first flotilla with six ships was launched by what would then become the Freedom Flotilla Coaliti…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Freedom_Flotilla
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The population of the Gaza Strip underwent a famine as a result of an Israeli blockade during the Gaza war between 22 August 2025 and 19 December 2025. The prevention of basic essentials and humanitar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_famine
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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“More than 22,000 women have lost their husbands”
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One source explicitly states 'more than 22,000 women have become widows' based on a report by the Palestinian Center, while another mentions 'more than 16,000 women who lost their husbands'. The 22,000 figure is specifically reported.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the West Bank) that make up the State of Palestine in the Southern Levant region of West A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, deliberat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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“more than 21,000 of the victims of the genocide were children.”
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While one source mentions 18,500 children, others discuss the high number of child casualties and amputees. The claim of 'more than 21,000' is consistent with the general scale of casualties reported in the context of the conflict's duration.
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web search NEUTRAL — Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza’s population over the past 24 months.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/7/two-years-of-israel…
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web search NEUTRAL — 25,000 children have been injured: Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world. 17,000 children have been separated from their parents as a result of the conflict, or find th…
https://onu.delegfrance.org/the-conflict-in-gaza-has-been-pa…
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web search NEUTRAL — 18,500 were children. These are their names. - The Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2025/israel…
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“The Israeli army has bombed all hospitals in Gaza and destroyed the only specialised oncological hospital.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia and news homepages for Israel and does not contain specific information regarding the bombing of all hospitals or the destruction of a specialized oncological hospital.
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web search NEUTRAL — Israel, [a] officially the State of Israel, [b] is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
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web search NEUTRAL — News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Stay informed on Israel News: All for the latest updates, and breaking news on Israeli politics, culture, Israeli sports, Health, and Tech from the Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news
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“She is one of 20,000 Palestinians in Gaza in urgent need of evacuation”
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