Palestinian women

Newborn babies receive treatment in the neonatal intensive care unit at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, January 18, 2026. (Khalil Kahlout/Flash90)
‘Lives cut short’: Gaza’s surging miscarriage crisis
Pregnancy losses more than tripled in the first half of this year, as conditions continue to deteriorate amid Israel's bombardment and siege.
By Ruwaida Amer August 3, 2026
Palestinian Muslim worshippers wait to cross the Qalandiya checkpoint between the West Bank and Jerusalem to attend the Friday prayer during the holy month of Ramadan at Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s old city, April 5, 2024. (Wahaj Bani Moufleh/ActiveStills)
For pregnant Palestinian women, checkpoints are a matter of life and death
When I went into labor, I put off leaving home for hours, fearing Israeli soldiers and settlers. We reached the hospital in Hebron in time, but not all are so lucky.
By Hala H. June 10, 2025
An ADWAR employee cooks bread for displaced women as part of the “Resilience In Every Slice” initiative, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Dec. 8, 2024. (Courtesy of ADWAR)
With USAID shuttered, Palestine’s most vulnerable lose a lifeline
Trump's cuts came as a blow to NGOs like ADWAR, which provides aid and job training to Palestinian women across the West Bank and Gaza.
By Ella Halpern-Matthews April 30, 2025
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A demonstrator protests outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City, calling attention to sexual violence against women during Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, December 4, 2023. (Yakov Binyamin/Flash90)
Where’s the outrage over ‘systematic’ sexual violence against Palestinians?
Despite mounting evidence of the army’s gender-based crimes, Israeli women’s groups have largely ignored or denied the UN’s damning new report.
By Samah Salaime April 17, 2025
WATCH: Women of Masafer Yatta tell their stories of resistance
As Israel carries out its expulsions in the West Bank region, Palestinian women talk about what it means to face a state that targets them as an 'enemy.'
By Social TV August 29, 2022
Palestinian residents of the West Bank town of Beita hold nightly protests against the settlement of Eviatar built on their lands, June 29, 2021. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)
The women at the heart of Beita’s resistance
For 100 days, Palestinians from Beita camped on a mountain to disrupt the rebuilding of an Israeli settler outpost. Meet the women who made it possible.
By Fatima AbdulKarim April 20, 2022
Members of the Palestinian women's carpentry workshop Rweisat for Wood Art at work, in al-Walaja, West Bank. (Courtesy from their Facebook page)
Carving sumud out of wood
A carpentry workshop is providing Palestinian women in al-Walaja a creative outlet in an agricultural community stifled by Israel’s separation wall.
By Natalie Alz December 31, 2021
Palestinian women protest against violence against women organized by the Center for Women's Programs in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 26, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
+972’s Story of the Year: Palestinian women rise worldwide
From the streets of Palestine-Israel to the U.S. Congress, 2019 saw Palestinian women not only challenging historical injustices, but fighting to right present-day wrongs. Now they are rewriting the future.
By +972 Magazine December 29, 2019
Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza weeks into Operation Protective Edge, on August 9, 2014. (Basel Yazouri/Activestills.org)
How Israel’s blockade exacerbates violence against women in Gaza
Women in Gaza deal with patriarchal gender norms and intra-Palestinian political divides, but addressing their needs cannot be realized without Israel lifting its blockade. By Anwar Mhajne Violence during military operations affects both men and women, but women often face a unique set of challenges. For Palestinian women in Gaza in particular, the interaction between patriarchy,…
By +972 Magazine May 17, 2019
Palestinian women cross the Qalandiya checkpoint, outside of the West bank city of Ramallah, on June 23, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
With US aid cuts, Palestinian women pay biggest price
For years, the United States was the largest aid donor to Palestinians. With funding to health, education and sanitation programs brought to a sudden halt, it’s women and girls who are hit the hardest. When Nawal’s husband had to stop working two years ago due to severe stomach pains, she became the family’s primary provider. Nawal, who asked…
By Henriette Chacar February 7, 2019
A protester takes part in a mass rally against government inaction toward gender violence, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, December 4, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Why I didn’t join the protests against gender violence in Israel
‘My identity as a woman is not detached from my identity as a Palestinian, so I can only rally behind a movement that calls to free women from all systems of oppression.’ By Maryam Hawari I first encountered Alice Miller v. Minister of Defense in my first year of law school. In 1994, Miller took…
By +972 Magazine December 5, 2018
Tens of thousands take part takes part in a mass rally against government inaction toward gender violence, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, December 4, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Tens of thousands of women hold mass protests against gender violence in Israel
Women across the country take part in a general strike to protest the government’s inaction over gender violence. Twenty-four women have been murdered since the beginning of the year. By +972 Magazine Staff Tens of thousands of women in Israel participated in a general strike across the country on Tuesday, declaring a “state of emergency” to protest the…
By +972 Magazine December 4, 2018
Feminist activists paint hundreds of pairs of shoes red to protest gender violence, Tel Aviv, December 4, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
‘Gender violence pushed Jewish, Palestinian women into a corner — together’
Women across Israel were set to strike to protest the government’s inaction toward gender violence. Samah Salaime, a prominent feminist activist, speaks about building solidarity between Jewish and Palestinian women and why this moment feels so urgent. Tens of thousands of women in Israel were expected to participate in a general strike and demonstrations across the country on Tuesday, protesting the government’s…
By Edo Konrad December 4, 2018
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