oPt: Palestine: gendered impacts of violence in times of genocide

Country: occupied Palestinian territory Source: Escola de Cultura de Pau Please refer to the attached file. Since October 2023, the Palestinian population has been subjected to extraordinary levels of violence by Israel. In a context of an increasingly documented and condemned genocide and persisting violence, oppression, colonisation and discrimination imposed by the Israeli apartheid regime,it seems relevant to address, document and give visibility to the impacts from a gender perspective. Whilst this report focuses on how the violence perpetrated during the genocide has affected the Palestinian population, it pays special attention to its consequences for the lives and bodies of women and girls, and less comprehensively, to its repercussions for men and boys. The analysis is structured around four thematic areas: 1) the violation of the right to Palestinian lives, highlighting the unprecedented deadliness of Israeli attacks, particularly against women, girls and boys; 2) the consequences of these conditions for the physical and mental health of Palestinian women and girls, with special attention paid to Israel’s use of reproductive violence; 3) the consequences arising from Israel’s use of sexual and genderbased violence as a mechanism of torture and intimidation against prisoners and the Palestinian population more broadly; and 4) the repercussions of other invisibilised forms of violence during the genocide, such as those related to forced displacement, movement restrictions, the severe deterioration of the economic situation and gender-based violence in the domestic/family sphere. The research focuses on Gaza and the West Bank, and reaffirms the arguments of the many people warning about the genocide against the Palestinian population and the risks of its normalisation. The persistence ...

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