Iran’s top human rights official has called for the removal of Israel from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women after thousands of Palestinian women have so far been killed and injured in Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza.
Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, made the remarks in three identical letters to the secretary general of the United Nations, the president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the occasion of the International Women’s Day on Friday.
Referring to Israel’s crimes in Gaza, Gharibabadi said “What is more deplorable… is the situation of women and girls.”
He noted that women and children constitute 70 percent of the casualties caused by the Israeli genocidal war on the besieged strip.
In his letters, Gharibabadi referred to several UN reports that revealed the devastating impact of the war on Gazan women and girls.
“Unfortunately, this regime, with such a dark history, is a member of the [UN] Commission on the Status of Women that -according to the declared objective- was formed to establish gender equality and empower women, and whose one of its important tasks is to accelerate the fulfillment of the needs of women all over the world.”
Gharibabadi said Israel’s “continued membership [of the commission] is a mockery of human rights principles and international humanitarian law, and a humiliation to the [UN] Commission on the Status of Women and its objectives and missions”, calling on the three senior UN officials to oust this regime, he described as “criminal, child-killer and murderer of women and girls”, from the commission.
Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.
The Tel Aviv regime has also imposed a “complete siege” on the territory, cutting off fuel, electricity, food and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.
Since the start of the offensive, the Tel Aviv regime has killed 30,878 Palestinians and injured 72,402 others.
Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under the rubble in Gaza.
