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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
UNITED NATIONS, July 29 (Xinhua) — One million women and girls in the Gaza Strip are facing mass starvation, violence and abuse, UN Women said in a statement on Monday as the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza escalated.
The statement said malnutrition was on the rise and basic services had long been disrupted, forcing women and girls to resort to increasingly dangerous survival strategies.
“Women and girls in Gaza face an impossible choice: starve to death in their shelters or go out in search of food and water, at great risk of being killed. Their children are starving to death before their eyes. This is appalling, unacceptable and unacceptable. It is inhumane,” UN Women Executive Director Sima Bacchus said in a statement.
"This suffering must end immediately. We need unimpeded humanitarian access on a large scale and a permanent ceasefire leading to sustainable peace," she said.
Women-led organisations in Gaza describe women boiling discarded food scraps to feed their children and risking death in search of food and water. Women and girls have run out of basic necessities that are critical to their health, safety and dignity, the statement said.
It also said that more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza, most of them mothers who have left their children and elderly people without protection and care. Women bear children in conditions of malnutrition, and give birth without access to water and medical care.
The statement said UN Women joins the UN and humanitarian organizations in calling for an end to this horror and reiterates its demands for unrestricted access for women and girls to humanitarian aid, the release of all hostages and an immediate ceasefire leading to sustainable peace.
“We share the hope that this week’s High-Level International Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of the Palestinian Question will be a turning point and lead to the realization of the principle of ‘two states for two peoples’, according to which Israel and Palestine will live side by side in peace and security,” the statement added. –0–
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