WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE ISRAEL PALESTINE GAZA - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL AL #347 - Editorial - Women's bodies, a perpetual war zone (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 In the war which has pitted Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in

the Gaza Strip against the State of Israel since October 7, women are
paying, as is unfortunately customary, a heavy price. ---- Women's
bodies are the preferred target of acts of war committed against
civilian populations. On November 14, a veil was lifted on the
atrocities committed on October 7, specifically on the bodies of women:
genital mutilation and rape, often followed by the assassination of the
victim, were recorded by the dozens.
On February 19, it was a UN agency which denounced "cases of rape and
sexual assault committed against Palestinian women and girls detained by
the Israeli authorities". The Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights relayed these accusations. Today in
Palestine, as yesterday in Sudan, women are the first civilian victims
of war. In both camps, men, soldiers, sure of their right, attack the
bodies of women to better humiliate the enemy. It is not only in
conflict zones that women are victims of patriarchy.

In France, the collective #NousToutes gathered on February 8 in memory
of the 900 women victims of feminicides committed since Emmanuel
Macron's first five-year term - remember that the latter had made
equality between women and men a " great national cause. To no longer
make women and the violence committed against them invisible, let's all
mobilize on March 8 for the feminist strike and make it a renewable
strike until the abolition of patriarchy!

UCL, February 23, 2024

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Le-corps-des-femmes-un-terrain-de-guerre-perpetuel
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