An average of 47 women and girls were killed every day during the war in Gaza. This is according to data published by UN Women, reports Reuters.
The agency warned that the deaths continued six months after the fragile ceasefire.
More than 38,000 women and girls were killed in Gaza between October 2023 and December 2025, according to a report by the agency focused on gender equality.
"Women and girls account for a much higher proportion of deaths than seen in previous conflicts in Gaza", said Sophia Calthorpe, head of the agency's humanitarian activities in Geneva.
"They were people with lives and with dreams", she stressed.
The agency expressed concern that the killings of women and girls have continued since the October truce, although it does not know exactly how many have died due to a lack of gender-disaggregated data. data.
The ceasefire in October halted two years of full-scale war. But it left Israeli forces in control of a depopulated area that makes up more than half of Gaza, with Hamas in power in the rest, a narrow coastal strip.
According to local medics, more than 750 Palestinians have been killed since then, and militants have killed four Israeli soldiers. Israel and Hamas have accused each other of violating the ceasefire.
Israel says its aim is to thwart Hamas attacks and other warring factions.
The UN children's agency UNICEF said today that children continue to be killed and injured at an alarming rate in Gaza, with at least 214 reported dead in the past six months.
An estimated one million women and girls are displaced in Gaza.
"The extensive damage to infrastructure has made it almost impossible for women and girls in Gaza to access their basic needs, such as healthcare," said Calthorpe.
World Health Organization figures show that more than 500,000 women lack access to essential services, including prenatal and postnatal care and treatment for sexually transmitted infections.