Nour Beydoun, the regional advisor on protection and gender in emergencies for humanitarian agency, has said that the increase in miscarriages is due to pregnant women having limited health supplies and access to health centres, which puts them at increased risk of infection, Al Jazeera reports.

Miscarriages are also up because pregnant women lack proper food and nutrition, which results in poor fetal health, Beydoun said.

Ammal Awadallah, executive director of the Palestinian Family Planning & Protection Association, speaking to Jezebel, said: “All pregnant women are now at severe risk of delivering in unsafe conditions, being put in situations where they are giving birth in cars, tents, and shelters.”

Many births and even c-sections are even “being performed without basic medical supplies, or anesthesia and without any postnatal care,” Awadallah said.