World demands Israel's expulsion from UN women's commission: Iran

The spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry says the world demands the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women due to the regime's crimes against civilians, particularly women and children.

"The expulsion of the usurping Zionist regime from the UN Commission on the Status of Women is a global demand due to the killing of thousands of women and committing crime against humanity as a result of organized starvation of the civilian population, especially women and children," Nasser Kan'ani wrote on his X account on Friday on the occasion of International Women's Day.

He added that Israel must be excluded from the UN body for its measures which have caused acute mental and psychological suffering to mothers due to the gradual death of their children.

This year's International Women's Day belongs to brave women and mothers and should turn into an opportunity for global condemnation of the brutal Israeli regime, the Iranian spokesman said.

Kan'ani emphasized that the event should not become an opportunity for the false claimants of women's rights to make "absurd" statements.

These so-called defenders of women's rights, he maintained, have pursued an instrumental view of women and left behind a "black record" of violation of human, cultural and social rights.

Turning a blind eye to the "brutal killing of thousands of innocent women and children in Palestine" and continuing to support a "terrorist regime" has revealed the "hypocritical" approach of these false rights claimants to the entire world, he added.

Iran's Permanent Mission to the UN also on Thursday called for the ouster of Israel from the United Nations women’s rights body, citing the regime's killing of thousands of Palestinian women in relentless strikes against the Gaza Strip

International Women's Day: Gaza remembers 8,900 women killed by Israeli aggression

As the world marks International Women

The Health Ministry in Gaza announced in a Thursday statement, on the eve of International Women's Day, that the Israeli military has killed nearly 9,000 Palestinian women in the course of its devastating onslaught on the enclave.

Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said that “60,000 pregnant women in Gaza suffer from malnutrition, dehydration and a lack of proper health care.”

At least 30,878 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been confirmed killed and 72,402 others injured so far during Israel’s genocidal war, which began following Operation al-Aqsa Storm by Gaza-based resistance movements on October 7, 2023.

The Israeli military campaign has devastated large swathes of Gaza, destroyed hospitals and displaced a major proportion of the population of 2.4 million in the world’s “largest open-air prison.”

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