{"id":13103,"date":"2024-07-26T17:31:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T17:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/13103\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T15:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T15:02:46","slug":"voices-of-gaza-women-before-the-un-security-council-they-often-die-slowly-and-with-excruciating-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/13103\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices of Gaza women before the UN Security Council: \u201cThey often die slowly and with excruciating pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A UN official spoke on Friday on behalf of the women and children of Gaza before the UN Security Council, saying, \u201cI am forced to watch my son die of hunger,\u201d describing conditions that \u201cwill haunt us all\u201d for generations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Muhannad Hadi, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Middle East, said via video from Jerusalem, during a UN Security Council session on the situation in the Strip, \u201cAllow me to convey to you some testimonies from Gaza: In my shelter I hear women crying for help all night long,\u201d and \u201cwe wake up every day only.\u201d \u201cTo have food and drink\u201d and \u201cI spent four months without bathing\u201d and \u201cWe have to cut our hair because of lice and the lack of shampoo\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The UN official added, &#8220;This is a sample of what women told me when I met them in Deir al-Balah (central Gaza Strip) on July 9.&#8221; He added, &#8220;Many women have thoughts of committing suicide. Their greatest suffering, especially as mothers, is their inability to protect their children.&#8221; He continued, &#8220;Thousands of these children suffered terrible injuries, such as third-degree burns, amputations, and profound psychological trauma.&#8221; Those who do not survive &#8220;often die slowly and in excruciating pain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Muhannad Hadi warned, &#8220;The humanitarian consequences of this conflict are not exaggerated. These consequences will haunt us all, not for years but for generations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UN official spoke on Friday on behalf of the women and children of Gaza before the UN Security Council, saying, \u201cI am forced to watch my son die of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13105,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103\/revisions\/13105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}