PUIC Committee on Human Rights, Women and Family: Calls for Responding to Appeal of Palestinian Women and Children

PUIC Committee on Human Rights, Women and Family:  Calls for Responding to Appeal of Palestinian Women and Children

The PUIC Standing Specialized Committee on Human Rights, women and Family held its First Extraordinary Webinar Meeting to discuss the situation of women and children in the occupied Gaza Strip on Thursday 21 December 2023, at 09:00 (GMT). The meeting was attended by (12) Member Parliaments, of which (6) Members took the floor.

The Speakers addressed the developments which has been taken place since the 7th of last October, including massacres, destruction, hunger, torture and deportation of the struggling Palestinian people, committed by the Zionist forces which victimized mainly women and children.

The speeches of the members of the Committee focused on the following important points:

- Necessity of responding to the appeal of Palestinian women and children.

- Necessity of sending food and medical assistance to Gaza.

- Necessity of bigger coordination and cooperation among the PUIC members.

- It is the obligation of all Muslims across the world to put their disputes aside.

- Strong condemnation of the unjust aggression against Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip by the barbaric Israeli forces, and a call to support Palestinian women by all available means, financially and politically.

- Condemning the killing of civilians, women and children, the deliberate targeting of paramedics and press reporters, and preventing aid teams from reaching them and providing the necessary help to save the wounded.

- Condemning the use of the United States of America veto power against a resolution for humanitarian truces and stopping the genocide of the Palestinian people.

- Calling on the member states of the Union to exercise diplomatic, political, commercial and legal pressure and take any measures that would support the Palestinian cause and lift the siege on the Palestinian people.

21 December 2023