Around 30 women identifying as Israeli marched in Byron’s CBD and Main Beach on Sunday to highlight what they say is a ‘disturbing and harmful silence’ by the United Nations and others after the October 7 attacks on Israel by Palestinian Sunni Islamist political and military organisation, Hamas.
The march was organised by local Northern Rivers group ‘A Mothers Cry’ in solidarity with Israeli women and girls.
Global movement
Organisers say, ‘This event was part of a global organising around the #metoounlessurajew campaign, and coincides with UN Women’s global 16 days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign. We believe this march is the first #metoounlessurajew march to occur in Australia’.
‘Following these attacks there was a deafening silence from international organisations that keep watch on crimes against humanity, violations of human rights and importantly violations of women’s rights, gender-based violence and children’s rights’.
They added, ‘While UN Women publishes detailed reports focusing on the challenges faced by women in Gaza, it almost completely ignores the atrocities committed against women in Israel during the Hamas terror attacks’.
‘From eye witness accounts and evidence compiled so far, we know that during the Hamas terror attacks in the various locations on October 7, women and girls, mothers, grandmothers, young women and children experienced unprecedented heinousness’.
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