Thirty women were sheltering in the Saudi maternity hospital in El Fasher, Sudan, on 28 October when the massacre began. Most of these attacks have taken place in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of pregnant women are trapped in war zones. They constitute a pattern of reproductive violence.”View image in fullscreen A baby in Pokrovsk maternity hospital in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. The Guardian has reported from frontline maternity hospitals where births have been forced underground and stress has caused birth complications. But shelling in the city of Goma in January hit the neonatal ward at Charity maternity hospital, killing mothers, babies and nurses.

Source: The Guardian December 22, 2025 10:27 UTC