Israel kills a Palestinian woman every hour in the Gaza Strip

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (an independent Geneva-based organization) said on Sunday that the Israeli occupation army has “killed an average of 21.3 women every day since October 2023 by direct shelling of the Gaza Strip.”

The Observatory added in a statement that this means that “the occupation has killed the equivalent of one Palestinian woman approximately every hour, in addition to other women who have died as a result of the crimes of the siege, starvation, and denial of medical care, and who were not documented in the statistics.”

The Observatory emphasized that “the shocking and unprecedented rates of killing women in the Gaza Strip reflect a systematic pattern of mass killing deliberately targeting Palestinian women, especially mothers, whether in their homes, displacement camps, temporary shelters, or while trying to save their children under shelling.”

The Observatory explained that “Israeli targeting is not limited to killing. According to Ministry of Health figures, there are 60,000 pregnant women currently suffering from extremely dire conditions due to malnutrition, hunger, and the lack of adequate healthcare as a result of the tightened blockade and the ban on the entry of goods and aid since the beginning of last March.”