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The Euro -Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights revealed yesterday, Sunday, that the Israeli occupation army kills Gaza women at a rate of 21.3 women per day in the Gaza Strip, which is equivalent to the killing of a woman almost every hour.
The observatory said in a press statement that these shocking numbers do not include thousands of women who were martyred due to the siege, starvation and the absence of medical care, and this means that the actual numbers may be much higher than the statistics announced.
Curriculum
The Observatory pointed out that the frequent and daily pattern of killing women in Gaza reflects a deliberate policy of mass killing, targeting Palestinian women in particular, especially mothers, whether in their homes or within the displacement tents or temporary shelter centers, or while trying to protect their children and escape from bombing.
He stressed that the field data show a pattern of targeting young pregnant women and mothers with their children, which is a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, and constitutes a direct threat to the future of Palestinian society.
The observatory team has documented the killing of thousands of women, most of them of childbearing age, including 7920, who were killed during 582 days of aggression, whether inside their homes, in the displacement tents, or during their attempts to escape the bombing.
The statement reviewed a number of cases documented by the Observatory team, including:
- Naifa Sadiq Zaki Ali Awaida, 24, was killed with her husband and two children, September (24 days) and Zina (18 months) in a direct bombing of their tent with the properties of Khan Yunis at dawn on Sunday.
- Nada Abu Shakra was killed with her husband and two children in similar circumstances.
- Khadija Asalia, 30, and her husband, and 5 of their children were killed in a bombing of a plane on their tent in Jabalia on April 17.
The Observatory also conveyed a testimony from Sabreen Salem, a survivor of a bombing targeting a building in Gaza on December 19, 2024, saying, “We were about 135 individuals at home. 120 people were killed, including pregnant women whose bodies were torn. They were unbearable scenes.”
Starage and forced reproduction
The Euro -Mediterranean Observatory also drew the suffering of about 60,000 pregnant women from highly cruel human conditions as a result of the siege and the prevention of the entry of aid and medical care since the beginning of last March, stressing that this policy represents one of the pillars of preventing forced births classified as a crime of genocide in the 1948 agreement.
According to the observatory, these practices include direct killing of women of childbearing age, targeting pregnant women, destroying the health structure, preventing the entry of medicines and the starvation of mothers, which leads to slow deaths and serious health complications.
The statement stressed that Palestinian mothers live under severe psychological pressure as a result of the loss of their children, their husbands, or their homes, the complete lack of safety and the repetition of displacement.
“We have been displaced more than 10 times. I cannot reassure my children. Every night we sleep on the sound of the bombing, and I cry for fear that I will not wake up and see them alive. I became without food, without ability.”
Calls to move and account
The observatory called on all countries to assume their legal responsibilities, take immediate measures to stop the genocide in Gaza and ensure the protection of Palestinian civilians, and to hold Israel accountable for its crimes, especially those related to international arrest orders against the Israeli Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense.
He also called on the international community to impose economic, diplomatic and military sanctions on Israel, including:
- Prohibition of exporting and importing weapons.
- Stop political and military support.
- Freeze the assets of the officials involved.
- Imposing a travel ban on them.
- Husing bilateral commercial agreements that give Israel economic privileges.
The Observatory concluded its statement by confirming that impunity encouraged Israel to continue its crimes against the Palestinians, and that the international community now should stop this collusion and guarantee justice to the victims.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has launched a war of genocide in Gaza, which resulted in the martyrdom of 52,862 Palestinians, as well as 119,648 injured people amid a worsening famine that clouds the besieged sector.
