Reem Alsalem is quoted as saying things about the violence against women on November 20. The format is rather odd, though I guess it’s normal for press releases from orgs – it’s a long string of “she said” without saying where when how she said. It’s a press release awkwardly put into the third person. What for? Why not just put her name on it as author?

Anyway, for the record, she does mention Israeli women.

Once.

GENEVA (20 November 2023) – Women and children have disproportionately borne the brunt of the conflict in Israel and Gaza, a UN expert said today.

“While these atrocities affect both women and men, their impact is gendered and disproportionately affects women,” said Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences.

“Women and girls of all ages are among those held hostage and killed by Hamas, as well as those injured and killed by Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment of the Gaza Strip,” Alsalem said.

There, that’s the once, at the top of the report.

(You see what I mean about the bizarre godlike third personism of the article, right? Who wrote this? How does the person who wrote it know what Alsalem said? Where did she say it? Or did she write it? Or what? Why all the mystery? I know it’s normal press releaseism but it’s annoying anyway.)

She noted that for decades, the Israeli occupation and the denial of self-determination have subjected Palestinian women to an onslaught of multiple layers of egregious and systematic discrimination and violence.

Etc etc etc for nine more paragraphs, with nothing further about Israeli women.