Women’s Day in Gaza City? The holiday passed as a cruel joke at a tent in Rafah where Um Zaki claimed she was boiling porridge on an open flame to prevent her six children from going hungry.
These days, every day appears the same. The conflict has taken away the days of feasts, joyous celebrations, delicious food, laughter, and hope, she said over the phone to Reuters. Describe Women’s Day. We are denied even the barest rights, and we are denied the ability to live. Israeli bombs kill women on a daily basis.
On March 8, International Women’s Day, Gaza families don their best attire and swarm hotels and restaurants to honor their mothers, daughters, and sisters. This is usually a significant public holiday in the Palestinian territory.
Now, it hurt to even consider such things because the 2.3 million people who live in Gaza are almost entirely homeless and are fighting for survival.
Um Zaki said that soot from outdoor cooking fires had stained her face on a day when she would usually wear cosmetics. She began to explain about how her personal clothes were hung outside the tent for everyone to see. Women’s Day! A nearby woman sobbed into the phone. In Gaza, there is no Women’s Day. We are on the verge of a calamity in Gaza due of Israel!
The Gaza Health Ministry stated 60,000 pregnant women in the territory were malnourished and dehydrated in a statement released on the occasion of the holiday.
According to the statement, “5,000 pregnant women give birth in Gaza every month amid harsh, insecure, and unhealthy conditions because of the bombardment and displacement.”
Of the 30,878 persons confirmed killed in Israel’s attack, about 9,000 were women, and an additional 13,000 were youngsters of both sexes, according to Gaza’s health officials. It’s estimated that thousands more people have perished beneath the debris.
Mothers and small children are particularly susceptible as the enclave is currently experiencing widespread severe hunger and there is essentially no food available.
The situation is currently the worst hunger emergency that the IPC, an international organization entrusted with measuring famine, has ever seen, even though it hasn’t persisted long enough for starvation to kill the enormous numbers associated with famine. Gaza was already home to “the highest share of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity the IPC has ever classified for any given area or country,” according to a report released by the IPC last month.
According to UNRWA, a UN body that provides relief to Palestinians, 63 women, including 37 mothers, are slain in Gaza on average every day. This information was reported on X.
