UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, says countries who advocate women’s rights must ‘walk the talk’, applying their principles consistently and without selective advocacy by avoiding arms transfers that facilitate the killing of Palestinian women by Israel.

Pregnant women, mothers and young girls are particularly vulnerable, she explains, as they face a sharp increase in miscarriages, malnutrition, and severe dehydration due to the dire circumstances.

“Mothers and would-be mothers have been targeted by the genocidal machine,” explains Alsalem. “They cannot even feed their newborn kids, not to mention the terror and desperation they feel because of the constant need to flee seeking safety in a place where there is no safety, the bombardments, the constant attack, the arbitrary executions, destruction of their families, family homes and with it the photos and items commemorating their family lives.”

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        Reading this comment in the thread proves my point.

        https://lemmy.world/comment/11739726

        Everyone would ve really upset if you replaced the word Muslim with Jew in your comment.

        But it is okay because Americans have been brainwashed into believing they need to free all women wearing a hijab by bombing their country to rubble.

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          Replacing the word Muslim (Islam) with Jew in my original comment would make it false.
          And just because there’s a weird comment to the story I linked, doesn’t make the situation the story describes less discriminating against women, which is typical for Muslim countries.

          I have met Muslims that pride themselves for putting women “in their place”, for speaking while they were talking with their husband.
          It’s disgusting when muslim men behave like that, and that were muslims living in a country where women have equal rights by law, and it’s illegal to discriminate against them.
          So they are traitors to their new country, which is an all to common thing among Muslims.

          If they love the oppression of their home country so much, they should stay there.

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            And in your infinite racism you have classified the actions of those men as what Islam prescribes without ever having done any research.

            If they love the oppression of their home country so much, they should stay there.

            Most of them fled because America destroyed their country. A culture of death and oppression glorifying its military at every step.

            “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”

            • Samuel P. Huntington,