Now in over 19 weeks of carnage, over 36,000 Palestinians have now suffered violent deaths at the hands of Israeli weapons.

And once you include that is those buried under the rubble, who'm afraid to say of course must be considered dead.

Now of course that means women and girls boys and men.

All Palestinians whoever they are of course have suffered horrors beyond most of our

imaginations, but the impacts of such military onslots always have profound gendered implications.

Most of those who have been killed are women and children.

There are two mothers dying every hour.

There are 50,000 also pregnant women in Gaza without healthcare now,

which the system has been essentially destroyed.

There are women in labour having seasectors. care now, which is the system has been essentially destroyed.

There are women in labour having sea sections without anesthetic.

There are babies being taken from the bodies of their mothers who've been killed.

There are women using scraps of tenses period products.

There are breastfeeding mothers at risk a terrible health. and

it's terrible health complications. We really could go on. And then there are now reports

from the United Nations about Palestinian women being sexually abused and raped by Israeli soldiers.

Now I'm really delighted and honored actually to be joined by Mariam Aldurasi, who is an academic,

a really brilliant piece back in early January for Al Jazeera, which is entitled

for feminists, Silence in Gaza is no longer an option. And I think a lot of people are quite

relieved when this was said given the horrific

consequences for women in in Gaza and must be said intersectional feminists really have been at the forefront of speaking out against his also thought this should not be seen as some sort of

discussion is not on a attack on feminists I'm speaking to a feminist. It's about how some who have partly

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