Freeman Cordelia, Shoman Hala
Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. Correspondence:
PhD Candidate, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.
Sex Reprod Health Matters. 2025 Dec;33(1):2523095. doi: 10.1080/26410397.2025.2523095. Epub 2025 Aug 18.
Since October 2023, Gaza, Palestine, has been the site of a humanitarian crisis due to violence from Israel, with numerous violations currently undermining sexual and reproductive health and rights. In this commentary, we detail these violations through the activist and theoretical framework of reproductive justice which centres on three tenets: the right to have children, the right not to have children, and the right to parent in safe environments and with dignity. Through examples such as the destruction of healthcare facilities, the lack of access to contraception or abortion and the total inability to parent safely, we document that all three tenets have been decimated through the systematic sexual, reproductive and gender-based violence inflicted on Palestinians by the Israeli security forces. We end the commentary with a discussion of "reproductive genocide" which we believe to be a term that accurately captures the wholesale decimation of life in Gaza.
自2023年10月以来，由于以色列的暴力行为，巴勒斯坦的加沙地带陷入了人道主义危机，目前众多侵权行为正在损害性健康和生殖健康及权利。在这篇评论中，我们通过生殖正义的行动主义和理论框架详细阐述这些侵权行为，该框架以三个原则为核心：生育权、不生育权以及在安全环境中有尊严地养育子女的权利。通过医疗设施被毁、无法获得避孕措施或堕胎服务以及完全无法安全养育子女等例子，我们记录到，以色列安全部队对巴勒斯坦人实施的系统性性暴力、生殖暴力和基于性别的暴力已使所有这三个原则遭到严重破坏。我们在评论结尾讨论了“生殖灭绝”，我们认为这个词准确地描述了加沙地带生命被大规模毁灭的情况。
