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In March 2024, UN Women called Israel's war on Gaza "a war on women", stating, "While this war spares no one, UN Women data shows that it kills and injures women in unprecedented ways." [35] The Gaza Health Ministry reported that 60,000 pregnant women were suffering from dehydration, malnutrition, and a lack of medical care. [36]
v. t. e. During the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, Israeli women, girls, and men were reportedly subject to sexual violence, including rape and sexual assault by Hamas or other Gazan militants. [ 1 ] Initially said to be "dozens" by Israeli authorities, they later clarified they could not provide a number. [ 2 ]
After the 2003 invasion, the government tried to remove the Personal Law Code, which is the basis for women's legal rights in Iraq. However feminist mobilization blocked this attempt and the law was reinstated. [35] This victory highlighted the growing influence of women's rights organizations like OWFI in creating national policies.
As a result of the more than 100-day conflict, UN Women added, at least 3,000 women may have become widows and heads of households and at least 10,000 children may have lost their fathers.
The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday it had received reports that most of the 22 victims of an Israeli air strike on a building in northern Lebanon were women and children. "What we are ...
The women of Palestine now faced a triple form of oppression through class, gender, and nationality. Radicalized by escalating events, women such as Leila Khaled, joined the Palestinian Resistance Movement (PRM) and took up armed struggle as many would be trained both militarily and politically.
Phothograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. Women in Syria are active participants in social, economic and political factions of Syrian society. They constitute 49.9% of Syria 's population. According to World Bank data from 2021, there are around 10.6 million women in Syria. [ 6 ]
On 19 February 2024, a group of United Nations special rapporteurs released a report stating "rights experts call for probe into violations against Palestinian women and girls." According to the report, there is evidence that during the Israel–Hamas war, Palestinian women and girls were subjected to wartime sexual violence. [7]