something hamas denies. for more on all this, i spoke with our diplomatic correspondent paul adams, who is injerusalem. thanks forjoining us. these reports coming out of gaza paint a grim picture of the humanitarian situation there. what more can you tell us about how hospitals in gaza are coping? well, with great difficulty. they are all pretty much surrounded in gaza city, because the israelis argue these are places where hamas fighters have based themselves, and consequently there have been intense battles going on around us hospitals. the israelis say they are not targeting hospitals per se, and they are trying to get the civilian populations that are clustered around them to try to leave, and also starting to think about evacuating the hospitals themselves, so that israel can concentrate on dealing with hamas. there is a small development on that front this evening. the israelis said tomorrow they are going to evacuate babies from the shifa hospital to a safer location.
are paying the heaviest of prices, just one of the statistics on the websites that you mention, 50,000 women in gaza are now pregnant, more than 5000 i giving birth in these desperate, dangerous conditions where there is no clean water, the hospital is a warning that they only have enough fuel to run the generators for a few more days, war does not discriminate between religions, between ages, genders, this is a war where so many, so many are suffering. as our chief international correspondent was expanding there, according to un women out of a population of about 2 million in gaza, over 700,000 have been displaced from their homes, meanwhile, 50,000 are pregnant with over 5000 expected to give birth in the next month, and over 7000 women and girls killed since the conflict began, the un has warned that women and children are dying at a faster rate than any other group, and for those women and theirfamilies any other group, and for those women and their families who do manage