In its report Gender Alert: The Gender Impact of the Crisis in Gaza, the agency estimates that at least 3,000 women may have been left widowed and homeless, in urgent need of protection and food assistance.

Meanwhile, nearly 10,000 children have reportedly lost their parents in a context where more and more women fear that families are resorting to desperate coping mechanisms, including early marriage.

Women are finding it even more difficult to access supplies, services and resources, a problem that impacts female-heading families, who are responsible for feeding, protecting and supporting them on their own, without an income-generating work.

Those who lost their husbands in the conflict now lacks the primary income-earner for their families, the analysis warned.

If the number of income-generating women in Gaza was already small before the crisis, this number has dropped lower in recent months.

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