UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)

UN women’s agency says 2 mothers killed every hour in Gaza

  • Majority of those killed, wounded or displaced are women and girls and failure to help them will ‘haunt all of us for generations,’ warns Sima Bahous, head of UN Women
  • She calls for immediate ceasefire, full humanitarian access to be granted, and for Hamas to release all Israeli hostages, whose families are suffering ‘unimaginable pain’

By Ephrem Kossaify · 20 January 2024