In Gaza, women and girls are paying the highest price of war, but their lives are being turned into a smokescreen. Israeli leaders claim their bombs are about “saving women,” echoing the same dangerous framing once used to justify the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.

In this episode, the journalist Ester Pinheiro speaks with:

✨ Yara Hawari, Palestinian academic and Co-director at Al-Shabaka

✨ Amina, from Let’s Talk Palestine

✨ Ohaila, from SAWA, a feminist organization supporting survivors of violence in Palestine

➡️ How women’s rights are weaponized to justify war and genocide?

➡️ How Western and Israeli discourse strips Palestinian women of their agency?

➡️ Why are we not talking about Palestinian men?

➡️ The ways women are resisting, organizing, and leading in Gaza and beyond

➡️ What genuine feminist solidarity to Palestinian women can look like?

Update: The United Nations has confirmed that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, where tens of thousands of civilians have been killed.