SOUTH LEBANON — As the world celebrates human rights and equality, Lebanese women are being slaughtered by Israeli missiles, in deafening silence from women’s rights organizations that have long claimed to protect women and their dignity.
Since the beginning of the US-led invasion of Israel, targeting women was not just a military mistake, but rather a deliberate approach within the framework of a systematic Zionist policy targeting civilians, especially mothers, who are the backbone of the family and a source of solidity under occupation.
The recent killing of civilian Zeinab Raslan and her injured husband Hassan Atwi (who was blinded in the pager massacre) on October 6, 2025 has once again revealed the true nature of Israeli aggression. There are no red lines for Israel to cross when it comes to silencing the voices of life in southern Lebanon.
Systematic targeting makes no distinction between women and men, caring mothers and resistance fighters, but not one among the dozens of hypocritical women’s organizations that prey on the rhetoric of “women’s rights” and “gender justice.”
Since a ceasefire on November 27 last year, 21 women have been killed and 116 others injured in a series of Israeli attacks. These numbers are more than just statistics. These are evidence of a deliberate targeting of Lebanese women, the guardians of the memory of the South, the guardians of the home, and the nurturers of generations of resistance.
The enemy realizes that women not only constitute half of society, but also the main incubators of national values. Therefore, we deliberately kill them in order to extinguish the flame of life and deplete the moral and human strength of society.
Even worse than the crime itself is the silence of feminist organizations that claim to fight for “oppressed women.”
These organizations, which occupy media space during domestic violence cases and legal discussions, simply do not exist when the murderer is Israel. No statement, no symbolic protest, no solidarity with the mothers who lost their sons or were martyred in their own homes.
It’s as if the term feminism itself doesn’t include women in resistance, the poor, or rural women in southern villages.
This shameful selectivity reveals that many of these organizations are not independent human rights movements, but rather foreign funding tools operating within specific political agendas.
They remain silent when Israel’s enemies commit murder, but shout loudly when they have the opportunity to attack values such as society, religion, and resistance.
Some of these organizations have become soft slaves of cultural hypocrisy, raising slogans of “freedom” while turning a blind eye to the most heinous form of enslavement: the systematic murder of women by occupying regimes.
Lebanese women today don’t need imported slogans or soft-spoken words, but rather someone and an organization to stand by when their very existence is targeted.
True defense of women begins not with repeating meaningless terms from the West, but with protecting their lives from the shell of occupation.
Zainab Raslan and other women martyrs, with their blood, provided the true definition of women’s dignity.
The silence of feminist organizations in the face of this systematic targeting is as dangerous as the world’s silence in the face of the crimes of occupying regimes.
Now, the question automatically arises: What kind of feminism does not express outrage over femicide? What kind of “human rights” can be divided according to the identity of the murderer and the victim?
It is a national and moral obligation to confront this hypocrisy, because Lebanese women are not just victims of war, but symbols of indomitability in the fight for survival and dignity.