A recent, tragic example of the international community, mainly the Security ...

A recent, tragic example of the international community, mainly the Security Council, failing to protect Palestinian women came during and after the latest Israeli war of aggression against the Gaza Strip, with its traumatizing impact on women and children. That failure shows the extent to which resolution 1325 (2000) has been totally ignored and breached by the occupying Power without any accountability. In this regard, we continue to witness unbearable human suffering in the Gaza Strip as a result of that aggression, in which more than 1,400 civilians were brutally killed, including hundreds of innocent women and children, and 5,500 other civilians were injured. This, along with the widespread destruction of Palestinian property and infrastructure and gross violations of human rights committed against the Palestinian civilian population by the occupying Power, has compounded the dire consequences that the illegal, inhumane Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip has had on the population, with severe poverty, unemployment and rampant hardship gravely impacting the socio-economic and psychological conditions of Palestinian women.