{"id":253219,"date":"2024-01-29T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=253219"},"modified":"2024-01-28T04:33:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T04:33:53","slug":"gaza-nearly-1-million-women-and-girls-have-been-displaced-and-more-than-17-thousand-women-and-children-have-been-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/01\/gaza-nearly-1-million-women-and-girls-have-been-displaced-and-more-than-17-thousand-women-and-children-have-been-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza: Nearly 1 Million Women and Girls Have Been Displaced and more Than 17 Thousand Women and Children Have Been Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"

23 Jan 2024 –\u00a0Women and girls are among the <\/span>most <\/span>vulnerable groups in <\/span>any <\/span>society<\/span>. Their vulnerability is typically amplified in times of crisis, such as the <\/span>displacement of Gaza\u2019s population because of the Israeli genocidal massacre.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Women and children sheltering in UNRWA shelters in the Gaza Strip \u00a9 UNRWA Photo by Ashraf Amra<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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Nearly 1\u00a0 million women and girls have been displaced<\/a>, and more than 17,000<\/a> women and children have been killed since the war began in October.\u00a0Shelters for internally displaced people (IDPs) are unbearably overcrowded with little or no privacy, especially for women and girls.<\/p>\n

The shelter at the UNRWA Khan Younis Training Center (KYTC), for example, is one of the largest shelters in southern Gaza with 40,000 IDPs and 140 births recorded since the war began.<\/p>\n

In Rafah, meanwhile, overcrowding means that over 480 people share a single toilet.<\/p>\n

UNRWA Director of Communications, Juliette Touma, reported that while in Gaza the past week \u201cmany women told me that they don\u2019t eat and drink not only because there is not enough to go around, but also to limit the time they have to spend going to use the filthy and unsanitary restroom facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Maysa, Associate Protection Officer from the UNRWA Protection Team at the Khan Younis Training Centre shelter, explains the problem with proper access to sanitary supplies for women. \u00a9 2023 UNRWA Photo by Hussein Owda<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Maysa, an Associate Protection Officer from the UNRWA Protection Team at the KYTC, confirms that the team receives <\/span>numerous requests from displaced women for sanitary pads.\u201c<\/p>\n

The shortage and scarcity of these supplies in the local market has a psychological and physical impact on women,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

A young mother there underscored that, explaining that attempts to use home-made, makeshift alternatives to sanitary pads negatively impact her health and well-being. She adds that she faces significant embarrassment within her family and the displaced community is significant.<\/p>\n

Overall, in Gaza there are over <\/strong><\/span>690,000 menstruating women and adolescent girls<\/span><\/a> who <\/span>require menstrual hygiene products<\/strong>, in addition to access to clean water, toilets and privacy.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, UNRWA cannot meet the high demand for hygiene kits as stocks have either totally run out or are at critically low levels.This scarcity puts women and girls at risk of reproductive and urinary tract infections and protection-related risks.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The closure of most stores and pharmacies in Khan Younis has exacerbated this situation.<\/strong> Dr. Nisreen, who works at the UNRWA health centre serving the KYTC shelter, confirms that the hygiene kitsdistributed to women at the shelter do not include sufficient sanitary pads.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The scarcity of this product in the markets has led to increased prices, making it difficult for displaced individuals to afford them,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

To date, UNRWA has distributed over 80,000 family hygiene kits to IDPs in Gaza since the start of the war. The Agency will be able to provide more of the same with support from the EU, which has contributed a total of EUR 14 million to date for internally displaced persons for the provision of shelter support items, including supplies such as hygiene kits.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, much more will be needed to alleviate the catastrophic humanitarian situation, which is particularly acute among vulnerable women and girls. Delivering humanitarian aid continues to face near insurmountable challenges, including constant bombardment and access restrictions.<\/p>\n

The level of life-saving humanitarian assistance entering the Gaza Strip is minimal and far below what the civilian population needs to survive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Source:<\/em>United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees<\/a> (UNRWA<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go to Original – human-wrongs-watch.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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