Palestinian women are living through the “darkest of days in the history of the country”, outgoing Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said on Thursday, as International Women’s Day (IWD) is marked globally. Shtayyeh said that Palestinian women are “mourning their loved ones, being killed, displaced, hungry and deprived of the most basic human rights in full views and hearing of the world” in a glaring statement issued for IWD, which is observed internationally on 8 March. Palestinian women in Gaza have been subject to death, grief, brutality, and a lack of medical care at the hands of Israeli fo…