Nairobi, April 20 -- The UN Women has lifted the lid on the horrifying effects that the ongoing war in Gaza is having on women and girls. A series of gender alerts produced by the agency provides an analysis of the reality of women's and girls' lives in the Gaza Strip, documenting abhorrent living conditions they currently face.

According to the UN agency, six months into the war on Gaza, over 10,000 women have been killed among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 orphaned children.

More than one million Palestinian women and girls in Gaza have almost no access to food or water, with disease growing amidst inhumane living conditions.

Access to clean water is especially critical for breastfeeding mothers and pregnant women, ...