Two mothers killed each hour in Gaza conflict: UN Women
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Women and children account for roughly 70 per cent of people killed in the war in Gaza, with two mothers killed every hour since hostilities erupted more than 100 days ago, according to a UN Women report published on Friday.

"We have seen evidenced once more that women and children are the first victims of conflict and that our duty to seek peace is a duty to them. We are failing them,” UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous said in a statement issued alongside the report.

“That failure, and the generational trauma inflicted on the Palestinian people over these 100 days and counting, will haunt all of us for generations to come,” she warned.

  •  Domiku   ( @Domiku@beehaw.org ) English
    9•5 months ago

    Obviously not trying to downplay this HUGE humanitarian crisis in Gaza, but why does media/politics always frame these things like adult men aren’t victims also?

    •  t3rmit3   ( @t3rmit3@beehaw.org ) 
      4•5 months ago

      Combine the patriarchal commodification of women and children together with the mindset of toxic masculinity that treats the death of a man cynically as both a removal of competition, and as a failure on their part to survive, and you get a subconscious mindset that anyone else will only care about deaths if they were women’s or children’s.

      Also, more specific to this conflict, Israel is actively framing any adult male (and many male minors) as being a potential combatant, and using that to dismiss their deaths as not bad. Pointing out that they are killing so many women and children (not just minors, but children) is also being done to make it harder for them to claim that their attacks are all or even mostly killing combatants.

    •  Overzeetop   ( @Overzeetop@beehaw.org ) 
      4•5 months ago

      5000 civilians (women who have borne children) killed is just a statistic; 2 mothers killed each hour is horrific and brutal. Love the intent, hate the headline. I’m with you, I’d prefer they not attempt to ply me with “think of the children mothers” rhetoric. This is a humanitarian disaster; it’s a shame so many humans have been immunized to destruction and empathetic grief by religion.

    •  teawrecks   ( @teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ) 
      3•5 months ago

      It’s obvious why the media does it: because it resonates with people.

      No one is going to argue that mothers and their children are out there keeping the war going, asking for it. They are incontrovertibly innocent, not a single edge lord is going to say "well yeah, but maybe they were making molotovs and committing war crimes.