This section highlights the crimes committed by the occupation against women, including massacres that have claimed the lives of many women due to both deliberate and unintended attacks. The regional director of the agency for Arab countries stated, "The war in Gaza is undoubtedly a war on women, who are paying a heavy price for a war not of their making." Since October 7, 2023, Israeli occupation forces have killed more than ten thousand Palestinian women.
Elderly Woman Ni’ma Qraiqa
“I recognized her by her sleeping position.”
Journalist Mohammad Qraiqa lost his elderly mother, a 65-year-old woman with heart disease and diabetes, during the Israeli occupation forces’ invasion of Al-Shifa Hospital. Qraiqa states that the occupation soldiers deliberately executed his mother while searching for him, as he is her only son.