Factsheet: Impacts of each Israeli Occupation's Summer Offensive 2014 and Delayed Reconstruction on the Women Sector in the Gaza Strip.

Women, in the Gaza Strip face harsh living conditions caused by the blockade, internal division, and the repeated Israeli offences that took place in the past 6 years. This factsheet sheds light on the situation of women in the Gaza strip and some of the obstacles they face.


Facts about Women Sector during the Israeli Offensive of Summer 2014:




  1. 438 women including 293 over the age of 18, were martyred by the Israeli occupation's offensive.

  2. 23 women of the martyred women were widow, 65 were single, 199 were married whereas 6 others were divorced.

  3. 1442 of the wounded were women.

  4. 48 women with disabilities were wounded during the offensive.

  5. 115 of the wounded women suffering disability after being wounded during the offensive.

  6. 3% of the Palestinian women are widows; 750 – 800 of them were widowed after their spouses death during the offensive.

  7. 18 women had their babies delivered at home during the offensive as a result of being unable to reach hospitals and access the necessarily needed medical care.

  8. Number of premature baby cases increased by 30% during the offensive compared to the months leading up to the offensive, due to the fear and tension.

  9. Infant mortality rate during the offensive has doubled, reaching 14% in comparison to previous months


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Women Sector vision in reconstruction and development process in the Gaza Strip.




  1. We call upon the international community to intervene to protect civilians and the stop the Israeli occupation systematic violations of people's rights.

  2. Call upon the signatory States Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to carry out their legal obligation and take practical steps to lift the Israeli blockade on Gaza.

  3. Reconsider Serry's plan; which is considered, within its content, a support the Israeli continued blockade on the Gaza Strip.

  4. Encourage the Israeli occupation's goods' boycott and support the global campaign to increase economic and political pressure on the Israeli occupation and colonization of the Palestinian lands that’s to say supporting special campaign (BDS) to boycott the Israeli occupation economically and academically. the BDS movement.

  5. Categorically rejecting the mechanisms for the Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip (GRM) and emphasis on the need to open all border crossings and marine unconditionally.

  6. Exert more efforts to end the state of internal division and involve women in the competent committees.

  7. Call for presidential and legislative Council elections.

  8. Hold the Israeli occupation accountable before the international bodies on the implementation of resolution 1325.

  9. Working towards a national framework to implement resolution 1325 on the protection of women under occupation and during armed conflicts and under occupation.

  10. Compel the Palestinian Authority to apply the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

  11. Submit a file to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the Israeli occupation's violations and practices against the Palestinian people, and hold contacts with the National Committee for this purpose, to file the Israeli occupation's crimes against women to the (ICC).

  12. impose Pressure on the Israeli occupation to bear responsible fo the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.

  13. Implement vocational training for women cadres in the politically and socially devastated areas, to enable them to actively participate in the reconstruction process

  14. Integrate women in the National Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza as active members, and activate the role of media in this part.

  15. Stimulate the international organizations to support and advocate for the protection of women’s rights in Palestine.

  16. all parties to take into account women's different needs and social and economic situation in their planning.

  17. Enable women to access services and ensure fair access to services.

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