More than 38,000 women and girls were killed in Gaza between October 2023 and December 2025, according to the report by UN ​Women, an agency that focuses on gender equality.

“Women and girls accounted ​for a proportion of deaths far higher than those observed in ⁠previous conflicts in Gaza,” Sofia Calltorp, the agency’s humanitarian action head, told reporters ​in Geneva.

“They were individuals with lives and with dreams,” she added.

The agency expressed ​concern that the killing of women and girls has continued since an October ceasefire, though it does not know exactly how many have died due to a lack of gender-aggregated ​data.

October’s ceasefire halted two years of full-scale war but left Israeli troops in ​control of a depopulated zone that makes up well over half of Gaza, with Hamas ‌in ⁠power in the remaining, narrow, coastal strip.

More than 750 Palestinians have been killed since then, according to local medics, while militants have killed four Israeli soldiers. Israel and Hamas have traded blame for ceasefire violations.

Israel says it aims to thwart attacks ​by Hamas and ​other militant factions.

UN ⁠children’s agency UNICEF said on Friday that children continued to be killed and injured at an alarming rate in Gaza, ​with at least 214 reported dead in the last ​six months.

Around ⁠one million women and girls are displaced in Gaza, UN Women said.

“Extensive damage to infrastructure has made it almost impossible for women and girls in Gaza to access ⁠their ​basic needs like healthcare,” said Calltorp.

World Health Organisation ​figures show more than 500,000 women lack access to essential services, including antenatal and postnatal care ​and management of sexually transmitted infections.