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A collapsing healthcare system is impeding access to life-saving medical care, especially for women and children.

Escalating shelling added to increasingly harsher winter conditions worsen the suffering in an already dire humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.

Heavy rains in Somalia after a long period of drought have increased the dire needs of over 1 million people and forced many to a second displacement.

With an unprecedented 10,000 people killed in just one month and a rapidly escalating humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza, CARE International continues to urge for a ceasefire and the immediate release of hostages.

Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, including CARE International's Secretary-General Sofia Sprechmann-Sineiro, issued a statement yesterday calling for an urgent ceasefire.

First batch of emergency aid including blankets, shelter and dignity kits, has already been sent to support affected communities.

CARE West Bank and Gaza Country Director Hiba Tibi welcomed the beginning of patients' evacuations from the enclave but emphasized much more needs to be done to protect all civilians.

CARE is increasingly concerned by reports that pregnant women are being forced to undergo emergency C-sections without anesthetics as well as other devastating impacts to medical care.

CARE West Bank and Gaza Country Director Hiba Tibi expresses deep concern for the safety of staff and all civilians after a communications blackout interrupted all contact with the region.