Genocide in Gaza: UN's Dire Projections for Women and Girls Amidst Ongoing Assault
The New Arab reports that UN Women, a United Nations agency, projects a staggering 38,000 women and girls will have been killed in Gaza by the close of 2025 if the current assault continues. This figure, presented as a grim forecast, underscores the catastrophic impact on the civilian population, particularly on its most vulnerable segments. While this projection aims to highlight the gendered
dimension of the conflict, outlets like The New Arab, by simply citing the UN Women report, inadvertently contribute to a dangerous underestimation of the true human cost. The report frames future deaths as a projection, implying a linear progression of violence. This framing systemically ignores the documented reality of the past two years, where Gaza's population has been systematically reduced
by over a million people, with more than 680,000 Palestinians, including 479,000 children, already killed. The actual number of women and girls already killed dwarfs the UN's future projection. The mainstream media consistently downplays the scale of the massacre by uncritically repeating organizational estimates that fall far short of the documented genocide. This pattern of undercounting
civilian casualties is not unique to Gaza. In 1967, during the USS Liberty incident, US intelligence immediately moved to cover up the true extent of the Israeli attack on the American spy ship, downplaying casualties and dismissing the incident as a case of mistaken identity, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The international community's muted response to the documented slaughter of