International Women’s Day

We now know that the two Bibas boys and their mother were murdered while in Gaza. They were not killed accidentally or by an air strike, their deaths were deliberate. The two tiny boys were murdered with bare hands. Let that sink in for a second. A 10 month old and a 4 year old, were killed deliberately, their bodies mutilated to try to cover up the cause of their deaths.

What sort of society does that? What sort of society is it where mothers openly talk about sending their children to become martyrs because of their embedded hatred of Jews?

Contrast that with those Jewish women, who on October 7th sacrificed their lives to protect their children, or Shiri Bibas who cradled her boys to try to protect them while they were all being abducted.

Today, on International Women’s Day, I think of all those women who were killed at the hands of Hamas and their supporters on 7th October.

I think of all the women of Ukraine who have been killed by Russian aggression.

I think of all those women in Syria currently being murdered by the new regime because they are members of the Alawite, Christian and Druze communities.

I think of all those oppressed women of Afghanistan and Iran.

I think of all those women whose freedoms are curtailed simply because they are women and the place of their birth.

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