{"id":296192,"date":"2024-05-09T16:57:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T20:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=296192"},"modified":"2024-05-24T10:57:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T14:57:41","slug":"silenced-voices-amanis-death-6may24","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/silenced-voices-amanis-death-6may24\/","title":{"rendered":"Silenced voices: Amani\u2019s death in Gaza – UN Women story"},"content":{"rendered":"

06 May 2024<\/p>\n

Amani Al Derbi, 35, was a hardworking mother and a psychotherapist in the Gaza Ministry of Health. Her mission: to provide comfort to those traumatized by years of conflict.<\/p>\n

After the eruption of war in Gaza, UN Women shared\u00a0Amani\u2019s story<\/em> of survival<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>in Rafah. At the time\u2014November 2023\u2014Rafah was a place of relative safety amid the Israeli airstrikes and invasion, where Amani was living with her husband Mohammad and four children: Firas, 17; Hanan, 16; Amir, 12; and Mustafa, 11.<\/p>\n

As Israel\u00a0intensifies its military operations<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in southern Gaza, UN Women has warned of increased death and despair for civilians in Rafah. In recent months, Amani and her family were displaced five times as they desperately sought safety.<\/p>\n

But there is no safe place in Gaza. UN Women has received devastating news of an airstrike in the early morning of Tuesday, 7 May, killing Amani and her four children. Mohammad was severely injured but was alive as his family\u2019s sole survivor as of Thursday, 9 May.<\/p>\n

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Amani Al Derbi, center, is seen alongside photos of her four children. Amani and her children were killed in an airstrike in Gaza on 7 May 2024. Photo courtesy of Amani Al Derbi.<\/p><\/div>\n

When UN Women spoke to Amani in November, she mourned the loss of her friend Lamia, and expressed concern for her son Firas\u2019 future, saying, \u201cThe dreams and aspirations of my children have been condensed into a singular, fervent plea: to survive.\u201dThe deaths of Amani, Lamia, and thousands of other women and their children shows that the war on Gaza is also a war on women\u2014on mothers, daughters, sisters, doctors, leaders, and more. Each life lost is not just a number, but a voice crushed, a future snuffed out.<\/p>\n

The international community has lost its \u201cmoral compass\u201d when it comes to Gaza, lamented United Nations Deputy Secretary-General\u00a0Amina Mohammed<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in April.\u00a0More than 10,000 women have been killed<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Israeli forces since 7 October, and more than 19,000 have been injured. Dozens of mothers have been killed every day.<\/p>\n

The war may have ended Amani\u2019s story, but her strength, spirit, and power will live on.<\/p>\n

UN Women continues to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza<\/p>\n

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Amani Al Derbi is seen with her children. Photo courtesy of Amani Al Derbi.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

06 May 2024 Amani Al Derbi, 35, was a hardworking mother and a psychotherapist in the Gaza Ministry of Health. Her mission: to provide comfort to those traumatized by years of conflict. After the eruption of war in Gaza, UN Women shared\u00a0Amani\u2019s story of survival\u00a0in Rafah. At the time\u2014November 2023\u2014Rafah was a place of relative […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[6926],"document-source":[2481],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1829,2033,2005,1741,1841],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-296192","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-stories","document-source-un-women","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-children","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-women","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/296192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/296192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296240,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/296192\/revisions\/296240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=296192"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=296192"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=296192"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=296192"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=296192"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=296192"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=296192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}