On the occasion of the International Day
for the Elimination of Violence against Women
War is a naked violence against
women in Palestine!
More
than seven decades and particularly in the past year, the Capitalist-Zionist
state of Israel has deployed the most brutal and fascist acts against the
Palestinian people. The result of these fascist actions in the past year
resulted in the massacre of ۴۳ thousand of Palestinian people as well as
injuring more than ۱۰۰ thousands more. Non-existence of any medical treatments,
wandering and forced evacuation of millions of people, reducing Gaza into
exploded rubbles and destruction of large residential areas in Lebanon which
has resulted in the death of more than ۲,۰۰۰ people and the forced displacement
of millions in the past few weeks. In fact, American imperialism wants to
achieve its “new order” through genocide of Palestinians by its Israeli
military barracks as well as the cooperation of European imperialists, in order
to change the “map of the Middle East” in the service of its global strategy in
the face of Russian and Chinese imperialists. In addition to astronomical
financial aid and advanced weapons, the American imperialists also provided
۷۰,۰۰۰ tons for the ۹۰,۰۰۰ bombs that were dropped on the Palestinian people.
All of them has been given to the Israeli colonialist racist’s state by the US.
More
than one million displaced women and girls without food and water bear the
brunt of the brutal and organized violence of the reactionary war. A third of
the Palestinians casualties are women and girls and those women and girls who
have so far survived the genocide are dealing with a deadly combination of
displacement, homelessness, infectious diseases, dehydration, and starvation at
the hands of the patriarchal and racist Israeli government led by the criminal
Netanyahu.
Among
the hundreds of thousands of displaced women in Gaza, there are ۵۰,۰۰۰ pregnant
women at high risk due to the prohibition of medical aid, from bombardment of
hospitals and centres for helping the wounded etc, which has left no medical
equipment, painkillers, doctors and nurses for the ۱۸۰ women who give birth in
Gaza every day. For this reason, thousands of women among the huge number of
displaced people have been forced to live in destroyed houses, on the roads and
in unsanitary places where they are in risk of infectious diseases more than
hundred folds for the mothers to give birth and care for their infants.
Thousands
of lactating mothers and tens of thousands of pregnant women are deprived from
clean water and food. Under the influence and consequences of war conditions
and indescribable pressures, stillbirths and abortions have increased
unprecedentedly which cannot be compared to the pre-genocide level. On top of
that, mothers who have stillbirths or abortions are deprived of medical care
and even the basic needs such as sanitary pads due to bleeding etc. Lack of
these basic needs for period times have caused hundreds of thousands of women
as well as teenage girls to use unsanitary cloths which in turn has led to
widespread various diseases among all of them.
It can be boldly stated that the war against
women and children is one of the central goals for the realization of genocide
and the radical destruction of the Palestinian nation by Israel.
But
in opposition, millions of people all around the world are protesting and
standing by the women, children and the entire Palestinian people and against
the colonial policies of the American and European imperialists and Zionists in
the universities, schools and streets and by speeches in various fields
including artistic fields….and these struggles are expanding day by day!
Violence
against women is rampant. It is now three years since the US brought back the
Taliban to power in Afghanistan, all these times the doors of high schools,
universities and most workplaces have been closed to Afghan women, and they
have also been denied access to parks, streets and social arenas.
In
Iran, women have been in constant and daily battles for more than four decades
with the regime over the forced hijab as concentrated expression of oppression
of women. Women are the main victims of
the proxy wars of the imperialists in the Middle East and Africa and they are
subject to and have to deal with all kinds of violence. In fact, no woman in
any part of this world is safe from the state, social and domestic violence!
This
year, On the occasion
of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we
stand hand in hand with other activists and many womenʼs organizations
alongside the Palestinian women who are subjected to ongoing reactionary war
with brutal and naked violence. We stand beside them against misogynist Islamic
fundamentalists such as Hamas. We stand
by them in a united struggle against colonialism, exploitation, oppression of
women, oppression of queers and other forms of oppression; and on that basis
further expand our ranks.
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March Womenʼs Organisation (Iran, Afghanistan)
۲۵ November
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