{"id":75706,"date":"2025-12-22T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/ng-interactive\/2025\/dec\/22\/childbirth-under-attack-how-women-and-babies-became-targets-in-conflicts-around-the-world"},"modified":"2025-12-22T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:00:21","slug":"childbirth-under-attack-how-women-and-babies-became-targets-in-conflicts-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75706","title":{"rendered":"Childbirth under attack: how women and babies became targets in conflicts around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian investigation reveals at least 119 direct attacks on hospitals and delivery wards since start of wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan<\/p>\n<p>Thirty women were sheltering in the Saudi maternity hospital in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/31\/sudan-civil-war-el-fasher-explained\">El Fasher, Sudan, on 28 October<\/a> when the massacre began. Some had just given birth and others were still in labour.<\/p>\n<p>Working at the hospital that night, lab technician Abdo-Rabo Ahmed, 28, was one of the few known survivors. \u201cI heard the voices of women and children screaming,\u201d he says. \u201cThey were killing everybody inside the hospital. Those of us who were able to run, did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/ng-interactive\/2025\/dec\/22\/childbirth-under-attack-how-women-and-babies-became-targets-in-conflicts-around-the-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian investigation reveals at least 119 direct attacks on hospitals and delivery wards since start of wars in Ukraine, Gaza and SudanThirty women were sheltering in the Saudi maternity hospital in El Fasher, Sudan, on 28 October when the massacre b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,221,1644,53,212,82,3414,419,61,404,1014,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-europe","category-gaza","category-human-rights","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-myanmar","category-palestine","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sudan","category-syria","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75713,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75706\/revisions\/75713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}