NEW YORK: The United Nations’ women’s rights organization has said that over 10,000 women have been killed in Gaza so far and described Israel’s war on Gaza also a ‘war on women’.
The reports said that 6,000 mothers have been killed in brutal Israel offense against the Gaza Strip since October 7. It added that the mothers have left behind more than 19,000 orphaned kids. The report said that Palestinian women who have survived the Israeli attacks and military ground operations are now widowed, facing starvation and displaced.
The report comes as The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will vote Thursday on the Palestinians’ plea to become a full member state of the UN, sources said. AFP citied diplomatic sources as saying that the UNSC is likely to vote over the matter on Thursday.
Israel War on Women
Amid Israel’s brutal attack in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinians in April revitalized a membership request first made to the UN in 2011, though the veto-wielding US has expressed opposition to the proposal.
Meanwhile, at least 11 people, including children, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza as Israel continues its offensive of the Palestinian territory. Arab media reported that 7 people were killed, including 4 children, in an Israeli jet strike on a house in the Yabna refugee camp in Rafah.
Similarly, the UN, US and Palestinian rights groups join increasing condemnation of Israeli settler strikes on Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank.
More than 33,843 Palestinian people have been killed mostly women and children and over 76,575 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct 7.
The recent developments take place in the region as Iran launched a strike on Israel in retaliation for an attack on its embassy building in Damascus, Syria on April 1 attributed to Israel. On Tuesday, Iran and Israel exchanged threats following Tehran’s first direct strike on its arch-rival.
