{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://cherfilus-mccormick.house.gov/media/press-releases/reps-cherfilus-mccormick-kim-urge-un-women-condemn-hamas-attacks-against-women", "Reps. Cherfilus-McCormick, Kim Urge UN Women to Condemn Hamas\u2019 Attacks Against Women in Israel and Gaza", "2023-11-30", "2023", "2023-11", "Democrat", "House", "FL", "Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick", "C001127", "cherfilus-mccormick.house.gov", "cherfilus-mccormick", "https://cherfilus-mccormick.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, U.S. Representatives Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL-20) and Young Kim (R-CA-40) led 87 colleagues in a bipartisan letter urging the United Nations (UN) to publicly condemn Hamas for its brutal October 7th attack on innocent Israelis that included the murder, torture, rape and sexual violence against Israeli women and women of other nationalities.\n\n\u201cAs Israeli women deal with the traumatic fall out of sexual violence, UN Women\u2019s mission to protect women remains critically important. As the world just observed the UN\u2019s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25th, UN Women cannot expect to be viewed as an honest advocate for women\u2019s rights if it continues to ignore Israeli women and women of other nationalities brutalized by Hamas terrorists on October 7th in an attack that claimed the lives of 1200+ Israelis and injured thousands more,\u201d the members wrote.\n\nThe members also highlighted how UN Women has taken action to support Palestinian women in Gaza, while not doing the same for Israeli women, adding that, \u201cOn October 20th, UN Women released a report titled 'UN Women rapid assessment and humanitarian response in the Occupied Palestinian Territory' addressing the effect of Israel\u2019s ground invasion in Gaza on Palestinian women. The report does not address any gender-based violence, sexual abuse or mutilation directed at Israeli women or women of other nationalities targeted by terrorists on October 7th. It also does not mention any assessment about the wellbeing of the many women \u2013 Israeli, American and other nationalities \u2013 being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, including a pregnant foreign worker who is presumed to have given birth in captivity by now.\u201d\n\nReps. Cherfilus-McCormick and Kim were joined in sending the letter by Reps. Colin Allred (TX-32), Mark Amodei (NV-02), Kelly Armstrong (ND-At Large), Jake Auchincloss (MA-04), Don Bacon (NE-02), Joyce Beatty (OH-03), Gus Bilirakis (FL-12), Shontel Brown (OH-09), Julia Brownley (CA-26), Larry Bucshon (IN-08), Nikki Budzinski (IL-13), Matt Cartwright (PA-08), Kathy Castor (FL-14), Ben Cline (VA-06), Steve Cohen (TN-09), Angie Craig (MN-02), Jasmine Crockett (TX-30), Christopher Deluzio (PA-17), Pat Fallon (TX-04), Randy Feenstra (IA-04), Brad Finstad (MN-01), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Lois Frankel (FL-22), Robert Garcia (CA-42), Jared Golden (ME-02), Daniel Goldman (NY-10), Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34), Jenniffer Gonz\u00e1lez-Col\u00f3n (PR-At Large), Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05), Michael Guest (MS-03), Ashley Hinson (IA-02), Erin Houchin (IN-09), Darrell Issa (CA-48), David Joyce (OH-14), David Kustoff (TN-08), Greg Landsman (OH-01), Susie Lee (NV-03), Mike Levin (CA-49), Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03), Kathy Manning (NC-06), Lucy McBath (GA-07), Carol Miller (WV-03), Max Miller (OH-07), Blake Moore (UT-01), Nathaniel Moran (TX-01), Jared Moskowitz (FL-23), Dan Newhouse (WA-04), Wiley Nickel (NC-13), Donald Norcross (NJ-01), Chris Pappas (NH-01), Mike Rogers (AL-03), John Rose (TN-06), C. 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