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women's rights in Palestine

Women in Palestine face a double burden: first, from the islamic patriarchal society they live in, and second, from the Israelian occupation. According to the recent UN report, the main factors are:

Palestinian women’s rights organisations are hindered in their activism as they get labeled "terrorist organisations" by Israelian authorities.

Because of the focus on Israeli occupation, the political climate in Palestinian society makes it so the women’s liberation movement in is considered of secondary importance. 

The Gaza blockade has an especially heavy toll on women and girls by limiting their access to essential services and increasing their care burden.

The difficult living conditions make women more dependent on male family members and vulnerable to gender-based violence.

Violence outbreaks and economic insecurity in Palestine are responsible for a stronger adherence to gender and patriarchal norms, as is observed everywhere in the world. 

Women’s access to quality health services is undermined by Israeli policies restricting the movement of people and goods, for example medical staff and supplies. Also, hospitals in Palestine are frequently bombed, so the construction of a solid health infrastructure is near impossible. While men face direct injury more often, women are vulnerable to the indirect consequences of the conflict, such as lack of access to reproductive medicine. This leads to a higher rate of maternal mortality: from 2019 to 2020, the maternal mortality rate rose by 43 percent. Pregnant and lactating women are especially vulnerable to malnutrition because of their lack of access to nutrient-rich foods. The lack of healthcare services disproportionately affects women, because oftentimes, they are the ones carrying the burden of caring for sick family members. 

Destroyed hospital in Gaza. (source)

The patriarchal Palestinian society also burdens women with high rates of gender-based violence. This is exacerbated by the lack of a stable justice system, so many cases of domestic violence, rape and femicide don’t get reported. The lack of access to employment makes women dependent on their husbands, which also increases the rate of gender-based violence and makes women unable to leave their abusive partners. 

Living conditions in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. (source)

Also, women’s rights campaigns in Palestine suffer from the Israeli occupation. In October 2021, the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees was one of six Palestinian organisations labelled a “terrorist organisation” by the Israeli Government. Other organisations such as the National Women’s Coalition for the Implementation of the CEDAW Convention, which is a coalition of human rights and women’s rights organisations and trade unions, are under fierce attack of conservative Palestinian forces such as clan leaders and right-wing political forces in Palestine. 

Khitam al-Saafin, chairwoman of the Union of Palestinian Women's Committee, was sentences by Israeli authorities to three months in "administrative detention" without trial or charges. (source)

The United Nations’ report concludes: “[A]s  long as the Israeli occupation, policies and practices, including violence against Palestinians, continue, the enjoyment of rights by Palestinian women will remain unattainable.”

Women in Palestine should not be the ones to suffer from religious patriarchal oppression from Palestinian society nor from Israeli occupation. A stable and just democracy is crucial for women’s emancipation, and for that, the Israeli occupation and the blockades, as well as the patriarchal oppression from their own society, have to end!

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[Id: a video showing several IOF soldiers in a crowd at Damascus Gate's stairs. Up to five of them are surrounding a teenag, holding her down to the floor. She struggles and the soldiers drag her, holding her arms with their batons. When she gets up, they kick her knees. Some soldiers start dispersing the crowd approaching the girl with their batons. The soldiers holding the girl start dragging her up the stairs in a headlock, and she kicks and punches at the other soldiers around her. Stun grenades are thrown at the crowd. / end id]

Palestinians gathered at Damascus Gate in occupied Al Quds today to celebrate Isra Wal Mi'raj, a religious holiday.

They were met with repression. IOF soldiers came in hordes and beat the gathered worshippers, specially children. The video above shows the IOF beating and arresting a 15 year old Palestinian girl.

They also threw a stun grenade at the face of a deaf pre teen, who had her jaw dislocated. Here's the video of her falling down after the granade exploded and being carried to paramedics by another desperate teenager. They arrested another young boy after brutalizing him. They beat and terrorized civilians, throwing skunk water at them. Activists had to evacuate babies from the site. A 6 months old was hit with shrapnel to his face.

In one of the arrests, IOF soldiers put a knee on the neck of a man before arresting him. Reminder that IOF soldiers and police departments in the US have exchange programs, and that the zionist consulate gave a seminar to Minneapolis PD, the same that murdered George Floyd, on "counter-terrorism" tactics back in 2012.

IOF repression becomes more intense near holidays. Last year, settlers broke into Al Aqsa several times, kicking out worshippers to take jewish settlers on "tours" through the site, desecrating the inside of the mosque. Israeli soldiers brutalized and trapped Palestinians inside the Al Aqsa compound during Ramadan last year. That's collective punishment, meant to break the spirit of the occupied people.

Palestine is occupied territory. Israel coats itself in legality to appear as a progressive nation but the truth is that they're a settler colony. Neighborhoods in Al Quds are fenced and patrolled, Gaza has a wall surrounding it by land and sea, people are routinely ethnically cleansed from their homes and killed by IOF soldiers and children are kidnapped and "arrested" without charges for years on end.

Take this moment where the media is showing you the plight of occupation to be more outspoken about Palestine. Palestine has been occupied for 74 years now and every attempt at liberation is met with repression. Teenagers throwing rocks, armed resistance, boycotting and sanctioning by civilians are all considered terrorism and legitimate reasons for the use of violence against natives.

Palestinians are censored at every step, with Instagram even shutting down Muna El Kurd's lives of settlers brutalizing residents of Sheikh Jarrah, while we see molotov cocktail workshops in the news. PayPal wouldn't even let you donate to Gaza or the West Bank last year because the donations might be tied to Hamas, and now blue checkmarks on twitter are crowdfunding for missiles. Call out double standards. The natural state of Middle Eastern and African countries is not war, no matter what the news say.

Israel is a vile colonization project that's been trying since its conception to erase Palestinians. Don't look away from Palestine, from Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan, Beita, Gaza and so on. International pressure is effective. Palestine will be free within our lifetimes, from the river to the sea.

Follow Palestinians on social media to keep yourself updated. These people are live streaming their dispossession to spread the word, so pay attention to them. Amplify their voices.

On Twitter:

Mohammed El Kurd

Mariam Barghouti

Quds News Network

Grassroots Al Quds

Human Rights Watch Watcher

The IMEU

Linah Al Saafin

On Instagram

The IMEU

Eye on Palestine

Muna El Kurd

Within Our Lifetime Palestine

Let's Talk Palestine

Samidoun Network

Other resources

BDS Movement (you can follow BDS anywhere in the world)

A constantly updating link of protests around the world

A download link to The Question of Palestine by Edward Said

Decolonize Palestine (website) - organized by Palestinians, has a series of articles explaining palestinian history and debunking zionist talking points

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Would you mind translating the hobbies of the Worst Generation from that SBS in an earlier ask? I'm a little doubtful of the translation after seeing "mountain-climbing" in Japanese becoming "traveling" in English.

Sure, no problem. Most of em will likely be the same, though.

Luffy: Adventure (冒険/bouken), partying/feasting (宴/utage)

Zoro: Training/discipline (修行/shugyou), alcohol/drinking (酒/sake)

Law: Wandering (放浪/hourou), collecting commemorative coins (記念コイン集め/kinen koin atsume)

Kidd: Music appreciation (音楽鑑賞/ongaku kanshou), collecting weapons (武器集め/buki atsume)

Apoo: DJing (duh), surfing (サーフィン/saafin)

Bege: Painting appreciation (絵画鑑賞/kaiga kanshou), board games (ボードゲーム/bōdogēmu)

Hawkins: Interior design (インテリア/interia), bathing (入浴/nyuuyoku)

Drake: Reptile enthusiast (爬虫類マニア/hachuurui mania), astrophysics (天体物理学/tentaibutsurigaku)

Bonney: Food/meals (食事/shokuji), Jenga (ジェンガ/jenga)

Killer: Drums (ドラム/doramu), cooking (料理/ryouri)

Uroge: Drinking/alcohol and lovemaking (酒、色事/sake, irogoto), mountain climbing (山登り/yamanobori)

Blackbeard: Gambling (ギャンブル/gyanburu), historical research (歴史研究/rekishi kenkyuu)

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Israel seizes Palestinian women leaders

By Joe Catron

Israeli occupation forces seized at least 11 Palestinians in a series of pre-dawn raids across the occupied West Bank on July 2. They included Khalida Jarrar, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and Khitam Saafin, president of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees and a member of the secretariat of the General Union of Palestinian Women.

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PFLP: Arrests of our leaders will not deter us from continuing resistance

PFLP: Arrests of our leaders will not deter us from continuing resistance

Source: PFLP The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine confirmed that the Zionist occupation forces launched a pre-dawn campaign of raids across the occupied West Bank of Palestine on Sunday, arresting a number of leaders and activists of the Front, led by the Palestinian Legislative Council member Khalida Jarrar, feminist activist Khitam Saafin and former prisoner Ihab Massoud, as well…

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Israel/OPT: Two Palestinian women in administrative detention

Member of the Palestinian parliament Khalida Jarrar and women’s union leader Khitam Saafin have been held without being charged or tried for 36 days. They both face indefinite detention without charge or trial. Their administrative detention orders can be renewed indefinitely and with no prior notice.

Palestinian civil society leaders Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin have been held without charge or trial since 2 July. According to Addameer Association’s lawyers who represent both women, the Israel military commander issued a three-month administrative detention order against Khitam Saafin on 9 July. The decision was confirmed by a military judge on 12 July. Khalida Jarrar, who is an elected parliamentarian, was given a six-month administrative detention order on 12 July and a military judge confirmed the decision on 18 July. Although six months is the maximum period of detention for each order, they can be renewed indefinitely.

Both women were arrested by Israeli soldiers during pre-dawn raids on their homes on 2 July. According to eyewitnesses, at 3:30am that day, between 40 and 50 armed Israeli soldiers conducted a raid on Khitam Saafin's home in Beitunia, a neighbourhood of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, in order to arrest her. On the same morning at around 4am, a similar Israeli military raid was carried out to arrest Khalida Jarrar in her home in Ramallah. In the raid, the soldiers also confiscated Khalida Jarrar’s phone, tablet and the hard drive of her home computer.

Both women were first held in Ofer military compound near Ramallah and then transferred to HaSharon prison inside Israel in the afternoon of 2 July. The transfer of both women to HaSharon prison violates international humanitarian law; detainees from occupied territories must be detained in the occupied territory, and not in the territory of the occupying power. Israeli authorities accuse each woman of membership in an illegal organisation, claims they both deny.

As with all cases of administrative detention, the “evidence” against Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin is secret, and neither they nor their lawyers are allowed to review it. This violates a central tenet of fair trial standards.

Please write immediately in English, Hebrew or your own language calling on the Israeli authorities to:

Immediately release Khitam Saafin and Khalida Jarrar and all other administrative detainees or to promptly charge them with an internationally recognizable criminal offense and bring them to trial in conformity with international trial standards;

Take immediate steps to end the practice of administrative detention.

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 19 SEPTEMBER 2017 TO: Minister of Defence Avigdor Leiberman Ministry of Defence 37 Kaplan Street, Hakirya Tel Aviv 61909, Israel Email: minister@mod.gov.il pniot@mod.gov.il Fax: +972 3 691 6940 Salutation: Dear Minister

Commander of the IDF – West Bank Major-General Roni Numa GOC Central Command Military Post 02367, Battalion 877 Israel Defence Forces, Israel Fax: +972 2 530 5741, +972 2 530 5724 Salutation: Dear Major-General Roni Numa

And copies to: Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan Kiryat Hamemshala PO Box 18182 Jerusalem 91181, Israel Fax: +972 2 584 7872 Email: gerdan@knesset.gov.il Salutation: Dear Minister

Also send copies to diplomatic representatives accredited to your country. HIS EXCELLENCY MR MARK REGEV, Embassy of Israel 2 Palace Green Kensington W8 4QB, 020 7957 9500

Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Khitam Saafin, aged 54, is the president of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, an organization that works for community-based economic and social development of women in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. She has been an outspoken activist for Palestinian women’s economic, national, and social liberation for decades both locally and in international forums. Khitam Saafin is a prominent educator and civil society leader in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. According to a family member, Khitam Saafin’s youngest child, aged 18, was called to an interview with an Israeli intelligence officer at Ofer military base following his last trip home in January from Cyprus, where he attends university. He was interrogated about his social and political views, his activities and those of his mother. The intelligence officer who questioned him appears to be the same intelligence officer who was present during the arrest of Khitam Saafin on 2 July.

Khalida Jarrar, aged 54, is an elected Palestinian parliamentarian and outspoken critic of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and Palestinian security cooperation with the Israeli military. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Addameer Association, a human rights organization, and an appointed member of the Palestinian Higher National Committee to Follow-up with the International Criminal Court. She has been a strong advocate for the rights of Palestinian prisoners and their families. Khalida Jarrar has been subjected to decades of harassment and intimidation by the Israeli authorities, including a travel ban imposed since 1998. The ban was lifted once for a couple of days in 2010 to allow her to travel for medical testing in Jordan for a serious chronic medical issue that she continues to suffer from. Israeli authorities have repeatedly declared her a security risk, but did not charge her with any criminal offence until April 2015. On 2 April 2015, she was arrested by Israeli soldiers at her home in Ramallah, and placed under administrative detention. On 15 April 2015, at the review hearing of her administrative detention order, the military prosecution brought 12 charges against her relating to membership of the banned political party Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and incitement to kidnap Israeli soldiers. She has vehemently denied this accusation and her lawyers have claimed that it has no basis. Following an unfair trial in an Israeli military court, Khalida Jarrar was convicted of four of the charges, including incitement. She served 14 months in prison and was released in June 2016 with a five-year suspended sentence.

Israel’s use of administrative detention of Palestinians is widespread and has led to mass hunger strikes by Palestinian detainees and prisoners, protesting against the conditions in which they are held and being detained without charge. Administrative detention – ostensibly introduced as an exceptional measure to detain people who pose an extreme and imminent danger to security – is used by Israel as an alternative to the criminal justice system to arrest, charge and prosecute people suspected of criminal offences, or to detain people who should not have been arrested at all. Although six months is the maximum period of detention for each order, they can be renewed indefinitely and Amnesty International believes that some Palestinians held in administrative detention by Israel are prisoners of conscience, held solely for the peaceful exercise of their right to freedom of expression and association.

According to Israeli NGO, HaMoked—Center for the Defence of the Individual, Israel is holding 465 administrative detainees without charge or trial as of August 2017.

UA: 187/17 Index: MDE 15/6859/2017 Issue Date: 8 August 2017

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Updates on Palestine: June 27th 2021

On the 15th, Israel returned to bombing Gaza during the ceasefire. Two days after, they bombed Gaza again, leaving more than 100.000 people without homes.

Israel has been blackmailing Hamas and other Palestinian leaderships in Gaza, saying they will only let Palestine resume fishing, reopen its borders and let Qatar financially aid them in exchange for political prisoners.

Israel has imposed stricter import restrictions on Palestine, including the import of raw materials, what's directly affecting Palestine's industry and leaving hundreds on job insecurity. Note that Gaza's borders are all tightly controlled by either Israel or Egypt in a blockade (hence why it's called an open air prison)

Because of the 14 year old blockade, Israel doesn't let construction goods in Gaza under the guise it can be used for military purposes. Over 100.000 displaced Palestinians have no material to reconstruct their homes and have to repurpose debris, while some of them are uncertain to rebuild at all under the political climate

A timeline of Nizar Banat's murder and protests

June 24th: Nizar Banat, an outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority, had his home raided by PA security forces at 3:30 AM, was taken to an unknown location and killed. The body was hidden from the family. Preliminary autopsies say the cause of death was unnatural and he took blows to the head

Still about Banat's murder, his home is in an part of the West Bank occupied by Israel, meaning that the PA couldn't coordinate the attack without help of the Israeli government

To understand better who Banat was and the relationship of Palestinians with the PA, here's an article

Palestinians came together to protest and were met with heavy backlash, being teargassed, beaten with sticks and brutalized by plainclothes officers

Trigger warning for police brutality: here's two videos showing the protestors being repressed by the police

June 25th: Dozens of Palestinians turn up to Banat's funeral to protest and are heavily repressed.

The PA brings an unconscious Palestinian to the ER of the Palestinian Medical Complex and closes off the building for other injured

Three lawyers were arrested by the PA

June 26th: Hundreds of protesters gathered in Ramallah demanding that the PA's president resign. Once again they were heavily repressed

Seven Palestinian journalists were brutally beaten by PA officers in plainclothes and uniform alike. Their names are: Shatha Hammad, Saja Al-Alami, Mohammed Ghafri, Najlaa Zeitoon, Fayhaa Khanfar

Here's a graphic video of a PA officer in plainclothes brutalizing Najlaa Zeitoon

Here's a graphic video of the PA dragging an injured protestor down a street

June 27th: PA cuts off internet access in Ramallah.

PA police attacked a group of twenty women trying to keep each other safe. Right now, Palestinian youth are protesting, without knowing if a plainclothes officer or Fatah loyalist will brutalize them with no way of communicating

About Beita

Israel is building a new settlement in Beita, on the West Bank (I want it to be very clear it's not Israeli land either by 1948 or 1967 accords, it's an invasion even to the most liberal person)

Beita has been raided by settlers for weeks now, with deaths, including children, and injured. IOF has been shooting and stopping ambulances coming to aid.

Beita heavily depends on its olive groves, and over 100 olive saplings were burned and older trees chopped down

Residents have come together in something they call night confusion units, where they honk horns, burn tyres and use laser lights to bother settlers. This is what's being compared to the Charlottesville nazis by zionists.

About Sheikh Jarrah

Sheikh Jarrah residents are still being beaten and brutalized for months now. Settlers have thrown stones at palestinians and pepper sprayed four children, leaving 20 hurt, all with cover of the IOF.

Israelis have started fires in Sheikh Jarrah

Here's a graphic video of the IOF choking a resident and beating another (26/06)

The IOF has been abducting people in Sheikh Jarrah by the dozens. Today, they arrested two members of the Abdulatif family, including a 16 year old and two women of the El Qasem family, after making sexual comments to humiliate them

They've also detained Bashar Yaish, a resident from Sheikh Jarrah, for no reason, being released hours later. It can't be more clear theyre doing this to break palestinians' spirits.

Mohammed El Kurd was almost arrested again, while other residents have been arrested for recording the streets of Sheikh Jarrah, under charges of "Tiktok"

About Silwan

Today's the last day before the demolition of Silwan. Over 1500 palestinians have been threatened by the Israeli government to either destroy their own homes or pay the government to destroy it for them

The Bustan neighborhood will be demolished to make space for a biblical park. This thread by Mohammed El Kurd of how this is a systemic excuse to displace palestinians

They've renamed Silwan with a hebrew name in anticipation, attempting to erase them

Not only are the people of Beita, Silwan, Sheikh Jarrah, Gaza and so on being made homeless, they're made homeless in a place where they can't build homes elsewhere and are being systemically repressed, starved and driven out. Be angry and amplify Palestinian voices. Follow Palestinians like Mohammed El Kurd, Linah Al Saafin, Mariam Barghouti and Al Shabaka and share their voices. To quote @/princessmlokhia on twitter, they will demolish these homes if they believe they can do so quietly.

Also found this petition to support Huda, a pakistani student who was harrassed for calling students to learn about Palestine. Feel free to add more

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ÀNGELA BALLESTER “EXIGIMOS LA INTERVENCIÓN DEL GOBIERNO DE ESPAÑA PARA ERRADICAR LAS DETENCIONES ADMINISTRATIVAS DE ISRAEL”

ÀNGELA BALLESTER “EXIGIMOS LA INTERVENCIÓN DEL GOBIERNO DE ESPAÑA PARA ERRADICAR LAS DETENCIONES ADMINISTRATIVAS DE ISRAEL”

La diputadas del Grupo Parlamentario Confederal de Unidos Podemos, En Comú Podem-En Marea, Àngela Ballester y Sònia Farré, vocal y portavoz adjunta respectivamente en Comisión de Asuntos Exteriores, han dirigido al Gobierno una serie de preguntas relativas a las detenciones administrativas de Israel de la diputada palestina Khalida Jarr y de la feminista Khitam Saafin.

Las diputadas de Unidos…

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Social Media Action November 25 for Khitam Saafin and the Palestinian Women’s Movement

Wednesday, November 25

10 am Pacific – 1 pm Eastern – 7 pm central Europe – 8 pm Palestine

Use these sample tweets for your posts: bit.ly/KhitamTweets

Download materials and more information at freekhitamsaafin.org

Use the hashtag #FreeKhitamSaafin in all of your posts during the action!

On 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, join Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, the US Palestinian Community Network, the International Women’s Alliance – Europe, Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Within Our Lifetime – United for Palestine, Alkarama Palestinian Women’s Mobilization and the Palestinian Youth Movement for a social media storm and Twitter campaign to free Khitam Saafin and Palestinian women political prisoners!

Khitam Saafin, president of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, is jailed without charge or trial by the Israeli occupation under an indefinitely renewable six-month administrative detention order. She is a well-known international advocate for Palestinian women and freedom and justice for the Palestinian people. She has spoken around the world about the struggle of Palestinian women, including at the World Social Forum, and served as chair of the Global Women’s March Palestine.

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BÜYÜK GERİ DÖNÜŞ YÜRÜYÜŞÜ: Aktivist Nicola Saafin Filistin'de Yaşananları Anlattı https://ift.tt/2Gmsqxp