Women in Gaza are ensuring their families’ survival “with nothing but courage and exhausted hands” while violence continues and essentials r
Women in Gaza are ensuring their families’ survival “with nothing but courage and exhausted hands” while violence continues and essentials remain in short supply, the UN’s gender equality agency warned on Tuesday.
Sofia Calltorp, who just returned from a visit to the enclave last week, said that women there repeatedly told her “there may be a ceasefire, but the war is not over”.
“The attacks are fewer, but the killings continue,” she said.
“to be a woman in Gaza today means facing hunger and fear, absorbing trauma and grief, and shielding your children from gunfire and cold nights”
“It means being the last line of protection in a place where safety no longer exists,” she insisted.
When I read these quotes, I think of Wesal (@shahdgazza). Wesal, who sends me sound clips of Israeli shelling late at night that are absolutely terrifying. Wesal, who lies awake at night, worrying that this time, death will find her and her family.
“This is what it means to be a woman in Gaza today, to know that winter is coming, and to know you cannot protect your children from it.”
A month and a half into the ceasefire food is still scarce and four times more expensive than before the war – as an example, an egg costs $2.00 on the market in Gaza – which is “out of reach for women with no income”, she said.
“It's completely impossible for many of the women that I met to feed their families,” Ms. Calltorp insisted.
“No woman or girl should have to fight this hard just to survive. We need more aid to enter into Gaza systematically and safely, and we need the killings to stop”
I think of Wesal, who suffers for her children, refusing to take medication for her migraines, because she needs the money for her children. Wesal, whose heart cries when she sees her son yearning for a tomato, a single tomato, that she cannot afford. Wesal, who worries whether she will be able to buy the clothes they need to survive a third winter of displacement.
Wesal, who appeals to you, day and night, because she knows it's what will keep her daughter Farah alive.
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