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 43 thousand of Palestinian people as well as injuring more than 100 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 2,000 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 70,000 tons for the 90,000 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 50,000 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 180 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.
8 March Womenʼs Organisation (Iran, Afghanistan)
25 November 2024
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