The UN’s latest humanitarian situation update on Gaza highlights the plight pregnant women there are facing, including the growing challenges in accessing “life-saving care”, Al Jazeera reports.

Due to attacks on healthcare facilities by Israeli forces, the repeated forced displacement of Gaza’s population as well as lack of ambulances, thousands of pregnant Palestinian women are in danger, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports.

The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) estimates that some 30,000 pregnant women are facing acute hunger in Gaza, more than 10,000 are “on the verge of famine” and almost 7,000 are already experiencing “famine conditions”.

Additionally, 155,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women in Gaza are in urgent need of increased food aid, UNFPA reports.