The term genocide is no longer sufficient to describe the human tragedy against Palestinian women and children, who constitute about 70% of the victims of the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, prompting UN experts and human rights experts to coincide with the term feminine genocide to describe the atrocities committed against Palestinian women over more than 15 months.
According to data from the Ministry of Health in Gaza, the Israeli attacks killed 17,841 children and 12,298 women.
These figures reveal that women and children have paid the heaviest price for Israel’s systematic destruction, while human rights defenders and activists have called for more specific definitions to describe these atrocities.
Rights experts have called for the use of the term “femi-genocide” to describe atrocities against women in Gaza, for being killed simply because they are Palestinian.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Al-Salem, said that the situation in Gaza has reached proportions unprecedented in modern history.
Al-Salem stressed that Israel’s attacks on Palestinian women are part of a systematic genocide strategy, and stressed that killing Palestinian women simply because they are women is a war crime and a crime against humanity.