Hyderabad, March 12 -- Women and girls in the Gaza Strip are facing a worsening health and humanitarian crisis as the ongoing war continues to destroy healthcare infrastructure, disrupt treatment for serious illnesses and leave pregnant women without adequate medical care, according to a new report by Amnesty International.

The rights organisation said the prolonged conflict has forced many women into repeated displacement while access to reproductive healthcare, food, clean water and medicines has sharply deteriorated.

The report, based on interviews with displaced women, healthcare workers and humanitarian staff in February, describes how expectant mothers are struggling to give birth safely in overcrowded displacement camps where med...