Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association
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The Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association is a Palestinian sexual and reproductive health NGO, founded in Jerusalem in 1964.[1] The PFPPA is affiliated with the International Planned Parenthood Federation.[2] In 2014 it provided services to more than 70,000 women.[3] In 2019 it had eight clinics in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.[4] It also provides services through telemedicine.[4]
Abortion is largely illegal in Palestine. The PFPPA does not provide abortion care at its clinics, but does provide referrals to doctors who are willing to do so.[3] The PFPPA supports "the right of women to choose the number and time of safe pregnancies as well as a safe abortion for medical reasons."[5] The group describes itself as taking a harm reduction approach to abortion care.[6]
The PFPPA's clinic in Gaza was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in October 2023.[7] Thabat Salim, a doctor employed by the group, was killed in another airstrike (in the Nuseirat refugee camp) in January 2025.[8]