Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by SALAIME Samah
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.
A demonstrator protests outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City, calling attention to sexual violence against women during Hamas’ (…)
, by Unites Nations
There are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence — including rape and gang-rape — occurred across multiple locations of Israel and the Gaza periphery during the attacks on 7 October 2023, a senior United Nations official reported to the Security Council today, as she (…)
, by Al Mezan
A POWERFUL REPORT has been issued by the Mezan Centre for Human Rights Reproductive Health Under Genocide: The Struggle of Palestinian Women in Gaza.” It summarizes Israel’s 16-month war on Gaza as it assaulted the 50,000 pregnant women and and details the impact on their health and lives. (…)
, by FARAH Mariam
Political arrests of Palestinian women in Israel — who face strip-searches, blindfolding, and doxxing — aim to send the community a clear message.
Israeli police arrest a Palestinian woman in Karmiel, northern Israel, July 3, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
The first time Palestinian actress (…)
, by SAMANTA Samiparna
Re-reading Etaf Rum’s ’A Woman is No Man’ in the current context reminds us that Arab-Palestinians have lived with painful, disfiguring histories of displacement for generations now.
Etaf Rum’s story begins in the 1990s in the hilly countryside of Birzeit – flocked by olive trees and mulberry (…)
, by FAYYAD Huthifa
Study concludes Israel’s invasion and bombing leave most women in the Gaza Strip facing tragic living conditions
A woman sits with others gathering outside the morgue of the Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on 25 June 2024 (AFP/Bashar Taleb)
The Israeli war (…)
, by FALAH SAAB Sheren
As his long-gestating drama ’Fadia’ airs on Israeli TV, Nazareth-born Palestinian director Shady Srour talks about why he refuses to stay silent about the murder of women in his society
Director Shady Srour. ’As a teenage boy, I felt this kind of social pressure myself.’Credit: Gil Eliahu (…)
, by Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHRI)
Since October 7th, we have been cautiously addressing accounts of violence, including instances of sexual and gender-based violence committed by Israeli military and security forces against Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
Photo: Activestills
Since October 7th, we have been cautiously (…)
, by Feminists, Jews, Anti-zionists
All too often in the fog of war, the brutality of sexual assault and rape is lost in the public eye, and bringing these abuses to light is something for which feminists have fought for decades. Complicating this issue, however, is the fact that accusations of sexual assault have also been (…)
, by MALIK Nesrine
Mothers giving birth with no medical help, babies without milk, one toilet between 500 people – but none of it evokes empathy
Palestinians fleeing Khan Younis arrive in Rafah, Gaza, 26 January 2024. Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
Sometimes a disaster is so large that it obscures (…)
, by VINER Katharine
When Palestinian liberation fighter Leila Khaled hijacked her first plane in 1969, she became the international pin-up of armed struggle. Then she underwent cosmetic surgery so she could do it again. Thirty years on, she talks to Katharine Viner about being a woman at war
In a way, the whole (…)
, by SALAIME Samah
Feminist principles compel us to stand with both the Palestinian women being slaughtered in Gaza and the Israeli women testifying about sexual violence.
Israelis gather in Jerusalem’s Independence Park in front of the U.S. Embassy to mourn those killed in Gaza and to call for a ceasefire and (…)
, by MASARWA Lubna, OSMAN Nadda , SHALASH Fayha
The Israeli army has arbitrarily detained dozens of women and girls from Gaza without disclosing their whereabouts or the charges they face, Palestinian groups and families have said.
Photo: Families fear for women detained by soldiers and taken to undisclosed locations Women with children (…)
, by Arab Women’s Organizations Against Rape
Six Arab women’s oranizations, including Na’am Arab Women in the Center, published a postion paper against violence against all women during this war:
Feminists worldwide have made remarkable efforts to stand against silencing women and questioning their voices, especially during times of (…)
, by UN Women
We deeply regret that military operations have resumed in Gaza, and we reiterate that all women, Israeli women, Palestinian women, as all others, are entitled to a life lived in safety and free from violence.
We unequivocally condemn the brutal attacks by Hamas on Israel on 7 October. We are (…)
, par Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHRI)
The position paper brings together the various accounts and reports made public so far. These include the testimonies of survivors who witnessed acts of sexual violence, descriptions by security and emergency personnel, and visual accounts that were circulated online.
The Position Paper (…)
, by MARSHOOD Hala
“There is no free homeland without free women” reverberated across Palestinian communities last September when thousands of Palestinian women took to the streets in 12 villages, towns and cities across the world in what was the launch of Tal’at, a Palestinian feminist movement. Tal’at means (…)
, by DAHER Joseph
The TALIAAT movement mobilized for the first time in Ramallah on September 26, 2019, bringing together more than one hundred women against violence committed against a woman by her husband. Other demonstrations were organized at the same time throughout all of historic Palestine, including the (…)
, by Al-BAZZ Ahmad
On Thursday, thousands of Palestinians protested for women’s rights in twelve locations across Palestine/Israel and the diaspora following recent high profile cases of gender-based violence against women in Palestinian society.
Ramallah city center, Sep 26, 2019. Photo by Ahmad Al-Bazz / (…)
, by MARLOWE Jen, SHAMMALAH Fadi Abu
New coalitions of women are shaping the future of activism and gender equality in the Gaza Strip.
“I am here because I heard my town call me, and ask me to maintain my honor.” Fifty-seven-year-old Um Khalid Abu Mosa spoke in a strong, gravelly voice as she sat on the desert sand, a white tent (…)
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