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Tor Wensland, United Nations Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, condemned the reported progress of the Israeli authorities on plans to build more than 3,400 housing units in settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Wensland said, in a press statement, that Israeli settlement expansion continues to be a driver of conflict in the occupied West Bank, further entrenching the occupation and undermining the Palestinians’ right to self-determination and establishing their independent state.
He reiterated that all settlements are illegal under international law. He urged the Israeli authorities to stop all settlement activities and refrain from provocative actions.
International Women's Day is celebrated on the eighth day of March, and during this global occasion women are honored for their achievements and struggle. However, Palestinian women are still paying a heavy price for freedom and dignity, as this International Day comes to Palestinian women, especially in the Gaza Strip, to be an example. Really, to humiliate women, kill them, shoot them, torture them, and force them to move, not to raise their status and honor them.

The media office in the Gaza Strip said, “This International Women’s Day comes at a time when the “Israeli” occupation army is killing Palestinian women in cold blood in the genocidal war that the “Israeli” occupation army is waging against civilians, children, and Palestinian women, and at the same time it stands The world is watching this catastrophe and this serious violation against Palestinian women without doing anything.” According to what was reported by the Youm7 news website in Cairo
He added in a statement today, Friday, on the occasion of International Women’s Day: “Today we are talking in numbers, as the Israeli occupation army killed 8,900 female martyrs, wounded more than 23,000 women, and demolished hundreds of homes over the heads of Palestinian women, and more than 2,100 women are missing.” A Palestinian woman is still under the rubble or her fate is still unknown as a result of this brutal “Israeli” war, which made 60,000 pregnant women live a harsh and extremely difficult life, during which they lack the most basic requirements for health and medical care, including hundreds who lost their children, newborns, or fetuses in their wombs as a result of the bombing. Fear and Israeli killing.
He continued: “This occasion comes in light of the presence of more than half a million displaced Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip who live an extremely difficult life, during which they are unable to obtain their minimum rights. They are unable to obtain food, and so famine lives in all the governorates of the Gaza Strip, and in the northern and Gaza governorates.” Specifically, it is also searching for food, medicine, and shelter, but it cannot provide all of that in light of this brutal war, in addition to the occupation’s arrest of dozens of Palestinian women who are subjected to physical and psychological torture, ill-treatment, and humiliation in light of a terrible international silence.
He said that Palestinian women are in dire need to defend their rights and all the requirements of their lives, not to be killed, shot, arrested, and forced to move and displace, as the occupation army has been doing to them for more than five consecutive months.
He went on to say: “On this international day, we extend our greetings and salute the steadfastness of Palestinian women under the circumstances of the genocidal war waged by the occupation and in light of these difficult circumstances in which they live, and we value their role in building Palestinian society and strengthening its steadfastness.
He went on to say: Palestinian women have always been an example and symbol of steadfastness and determination. They participate side by side with men in various areas of life, and make great sacrifices in order to achieve their rights and the rights of their people and children.
He continued: “In light of what Palestinian women are exposed to, we hold the American administration, the international community, and all relevant international organizations fully responsible for the genocidal war that the occupation is waging against Palestinian women, and for these harsh conditions that the occupation forced them into. The world participated in it, while others remained silent about these conditions.” The disaster.
The statement concluded by saying: “We call on all countries of the free world and the international community to work to end the “Israeli” occupation, so that Palestinian women can live in dignity and freedom. We also call on them to save Palestinian women from the continuing crimes of the “Israeli” occupation against Palestinian women, including killing, shooting, and arresting.” "She was humiliated, tortured, and forced to leave her home, her city, and her neighborhood."