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For Gaza’s most vulnerable, home is no safe place for COVID-19 recovery
With a fragile health system in the blockaded strip, infected Palestinians were sent to home quarantine — putting poor families, women, and children at risk.
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Fidaa Shurrab
March 12, 2021
The coronavirus crisis is a ‘pressure cooker’ for domestic violence
Directives to shelter at home may be flattening one curve, but they have led to a spike in domestic and gender-based violence, and the Israeli government is yet to offer timely solutions.
By
Henriette Chacar
May 4, 2020
‘Israeli authorities treat gun violence in our community as an Arab problem’
Israeli police estimate that there are hundreds of thousands of illegal guns among Palestinian citizens of Israel, a community suffering from under-policing and high levels of violence. Are the guns the problem? And what can be done about it? The Palestinian community in Israel has been experiencing an ongoing wave of violence for some years…
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Rami Younis
December 19, 2018
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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…
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December 5, 2018
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…
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December 4, 2018
‘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…
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Edo Konrad
December 4, 2018
Setting the struggle against gender-based violence back 30 years
A proposed bill to increase the sentences for Arab men who kill women ‘on the basis of family honor’ is not a step forward for feminism, but a step back. The Justice Ministry recently presented a bill to the Knesset’s Constitution, Law, and Justice committee that would define murder on the basis of “family honor”…
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Samah Salaime
March 2, 2018
When it comes to gender terrorism, Israel’s brave leaders stay silent
Four women have been murdered since the beginning of the week, but if you look at our leaders’ Facebook pages, you’ll notice they are spending all their time attacking Palestinians and leftists. Fourteen women have been murdered in Israel since the beginning of 2017, four of them in the past week alone. Had the murderers been…
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Orly Noy
June 15, 2017
What are Israelis willing to do to end violence against Arab women?
Another Arab woman was gunned down by a masked assailant. What are you, Arabs and Jews who respect the police and just want peace, planning to do about it? Another woman joins the list. This time it was Siham Azbarqa from Lod who was shot in her home on Monday and died from her wounds the following…
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Samah Salaime
March 30, 2017
+972’s Person of the Year: The women standing up to sexual harassment
The women who spoke out in 2016 executed an unplanned pincer move. As accusations snowballed, women inspired one another to speak up. First and foremost, what 2016 should mean for Israel’s social institutions is that there are limits on power. Whether or not men acknowledge what they did as wrong, title or talent must not protect them.
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December 30, 2016
As Arab women become statistics, their killers walk free
Sana al-Zana was murdered and buried in the desert late last year. The media didn’t report it, the police did little to nothing, and the killer is still walking free. I recently discovered that us Arab women are a skillful bunch: it turns out that in Israel of 2016, an Arab woman can put an…
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Samah Salaime
November 21, 2016
Israel looks to alter gun policy, and women are most at risk
In response to the recent wave of violence Israel’s public security minister wants to put more guns in more (men’s) hands and in more homes. The only guaranteed result, however, is that more women will be killed inside their own homes. By Rela Mazali Israel’s gun policy is changing as you read this. The country’s…
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January 13, 2016
Arab women are breaking the silence over sexual violence
Following a wave of violence against Arab women in Israel comes a revolutionary initiative that allows women and teenagers a safe space to share experiences of sexual violence. By Inna Michaeli A new initiative is providing Arab women and girls a safe space to share experiences of sexual assault and harassment. The website, Tusukteesh (Arabic…
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December 13, 2015
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