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During a temporary ceasefire in November 2023, Palestinian citizens return to their homes in the town of Khuza’a, inspecting homes that were destroyed by Israeli bombing. Photo: UN Women/Samar Abu Elouf
News
UN Women estimates over 28,000 women and girls killed in Gaza since October 2023
An injured child lays on a hospital cot while a women comforts her
Press briefing
Press briefing by UN Women on the collapse of a Gaza ceasefire and its devastating impact on women and girls
17-year-old Noor, pictured in Gaza City, Jabalia Camp on 21 March 2025. Photo: UNICEF/UNI766969/Nateel
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'Life has stopped. We didn’t sleep all night, paralyzed' – Women of Gaza report intolerable toll of the war
Rabéa Naciri speaking during the Human Rights Forum: The Imperative of Equality, organized in 2018 in Essaouira, Morocco, with the support of UN Women. Credits: Rabéa Naciri
Interview
Women’s Rights Then and Now: “Know our collective history and move forward” - Rabéa Naciri
Mohammad Abdallah, Gaza
Feature story
The long walk home: Displaced Gazans are going back
First day of ceasefire, Jan 2025, Palestine
Statement
UN Women statement on the ceasefire and release of hostages agreement in Gaza
Ghadeer Houmani.
Feature story
‘We must look to the future with hope’: Lebanese women work to rebuild and support each other amid ceasefire
Leen
Feature story
‘Our strength is all we have left’ - Generations of Palestinian women and girls endure war and displacement
Photos (left to right) of Reem Haj Ali, Josephine Zgheib, Afaf Shoaib, and Fadia Jomaa.
Feature story
‘No time for grief or tears’ - The conflict in Lebanon, through the eyes of four women
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Statement
Stop the assault on Palestinians in Gaza and on those trying to help them
On 29 September 2024 a woman in Beirut, Lebanon walks among the debris of buildings destroyed by airstrikes.
Feature story
Women share stories of crisis and displacement in Lebanon
Palestinian women grieve over the bodies of their relatives who were killed in Israeli bombings in Nuseirat and Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
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Supporting women and girls in Gaza and throughout the Middle East