UN: OVER 28,000 WOMEN, GIRLS KILLED IN GAZA

Wed 21 May 2025:

The United Nations agency for women stated on Monday that more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza since Israel’s war began in October 2023.

“That is one woman and one girl on average killed every hour in attacks by Israeli forces,” UN Women said in a statement.

“Among those killed, thousands were mothers, leaving behind devastated children, families, and communities,” it added.

The group reiterated its call for an immediate ceasefire, the release of all Israeli captives and the “immediate restoration of unhindered humanitarian access”.

In early May, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said the Israeli army has killed an average of 21.3 women per day since it began the genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, equivalent to approximately one Palestinian woman every hour.

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The Euro-Med Monitor added that the shocking and unprecedented rates of the killing of women in the Gaza Strip reflect a systematic pattern of mass murder deliberately targeting Palestinian women, especially mothers, whether in their homes, displacement tents, or temporary shelters, or while trying to save their children from the bombardment.

The Euro-Med stressed that the pattern of the repeated daily targeting confirms that Israel is using the killing of Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip as a tool of demographic destruction within the crime of genocide.

On March 18, the Israeli regime resumed the strikes on Gaza, breaking the nearly two-month-long ceasefire.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza says Israel’s war has killed at least 53,475 people and wounded 121,398 others.

The figure is a preliminary toll as numerous victims are still buried under the rubble and on the streets, unable to be reached by ambulance and rescue crews.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Military Affairs Yoav Gallant, citing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the besieged coastal territory.

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