In the displacement camps of Gaza, where war has stripped away not only shelter and food but the legal and social structures that once offered protection, women and girls are bearing a particular and devastating cost. Forced marriages have surged 123 percent in a single quarter, girls are being exchanged for flour, and survivors of rape are wed to their attackers — patterns that reveal how conflict does not merely destroy lives but reorganizes the conditions under which the most vulnerable are exploited. Three years into a war that has displaced nearly an entire population, the erosion of cour
Gaza violence against women surges as conflict erodes social structures
Thousands of girls and women in Gaza face sexual violence, forced marriage, and exploitation; adolescent pregnancies with severe health complications; widows and orphaned girls particularly vulnerable to abuse.
War & Conflict