In Gaza, there’s a war on women. Will the West really ignore it because they’re ‘not like us’?

Palestinian women, who have borne the brunt of the war, are seen as not sharing the sort of values that make them deserving of rescue 

A woman holding a child mourns her baby girl killed in an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images

Sometimes a disaster is so large it obscures its own details. Behind the number of dead and displaced in Gaza, for women and girls the conflict has been disproportionately grinding. 

In a “cruel inversion” of the history of this conflict, the head of UN Women told the Associated Press, women and children have borne the brunt of the war.