Two mothers martyred every hour in Gaza, and seven women every two hours: UN official

Occupied Jerusalem, SANA -Two Palestinian mothers are martyred every hour, and seven women every two hours in Israeli attacks in the besieged Gaza Strip, the UN Women executive director, Sima Bahous has said.

 “Before October 7, 67 percent of all civilians killed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the past 15 years were men, and less than 14 percent were women and girls. Since that date, that percentage has reversed,” Bahous said at a UN Security Council briefing about the situation in the Middle East.

“Women in Gaza have told us that they pray for peace, but that if peace does not come, they pray for a quick death, in their sleep, with their children in their arms,” Bahous said.

“It should shame us all that any mother, anywhere, has such a prayer,” she added.

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