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Women in Palestine by Lisa Nessan
"I cannot completely understand Palestinian women or their
suffering. I don't know how I would have survived such humiliation,
such disrespect from the whole world. All I know is that the voice of
mothers has been suffocated for too long in this war-stricken planet. . .
. This I know and it is very little. But it is enough for me to
remember these women are my sisters, and that they deserve that I should
cry for them, and fight for them."
-- Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan, 2005 International Women's Day Address to the European Parliament
Political arrest is one of the means that the Israeli occupation
uses to suppress resistance. Today there are over 9,000 Palestinian
political prisoners in prisons inside Israel and in Israeli military
detention centers and interrogation facilities throughout the West Bank.
Among the prisoners are about 115 women. Every Friday, women protest
outside the Red Cross offices in Tulkarem, Hebron, Jenin, Qalqilia,
etc., in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners -- their fathers,
brothers, sons, uncles, sisters, and mothers.
17 April 2005: Women holding photos of their
family members being held in Israeli prisons and military detention
centers during a demonstration in Hebron in support of Palestinians
prisoners.
17 April 2005: A mother and her daughter during a demonstration in Hebron in support of Palestinians prisoners.
17 April 2005: A young woman holds a photo of her sister during a demonstration in Hebron in support of Palestinian prisoners.
As land confiscation continues to affect the agricultural sector
through illegal settlement construction, Wall construction, and
increased military presence in the region, even farming in the West Bank
requires political engagement and, oftentimes, resistance.
04 March 2005: A woman inside her greenhouse in Deir Ballut.
04 March 2005: A woman prays on land which will be isolated from the village of Deir Ballut by the Annexation Wall.
15 October 2003: In Jayyous Palestinians wait
for the gate in the Annexation Wall to open to reach their olive groves
and agricultural fields.
During the first Intifada, nearly 60% of Palestinian women
actively participated in the national struggle against Israel's
occupation. Whereas the Palestinian armed struggle involves
participation from a very limited sector of society, nonviolent
resistance enjoys the popular support of a wide range of Palestinians.
13 March 2005: In the West Bank village of
Bil'in, Palestinian girls and women chant slogans in protest of the Wall
Israel is building illegally on their land.
13 March 2005: A Palestinian woman leads
chants during a nonviolent demonstration in Bil'in against the
construction of the Annexation Wall.
In the 1980s, the illegal Israeli settlement Elkana was
constructed on land confiscated from the West Bank village of Mas'ha.
When construction on the Annexation Wall began in Mas'ha in February
2003, Munira Amer, her husband Hani, and their four children were
offered a choice: to allow their house to be demolished or to stay in
their house and have the Wall built between their house and the rest of
the village. They now live in an effective box, under intense
psychological pressure surrounded by the Wall, Elkana, and a military
road with gates that can effectively lock the family inside their home.
27 June 2005: Munira Amer looks at the Wall
from the back door of her home which is now isolated from the rest of
the village of Mas'ha inside the "Seam Zone" or the area located between
the Wall and the internationally recognized border between the West
Bank and Israel.
The discriminatory restrictions and disproportionate and
collective punishment imposed on the Palestinians within the Occupied
Territories have reached an unprecedented level, depriving Palestinians
not only of their freedom of movement but also of other fundamental
human rights, including the right to work, to medical care, and to
education.
07 December 2004: Women and their children walk along the path of the Wall in Abu Dis.
20 June 2005: A woman walks through an opening in the Wall crossing from one side of Abu Dis to the other.
Checkpoints and roadblocks, identification requirements, and
travel restrictions and permission cage Palestinians inside a system
under the control of the Israeli military. The restrictions which have
made movement between different parts of the Occupied Territories
difficult or impossible have increasingly isolated women from their own
families and support networks.
30 April 2005 A woman and her children wait for Israeli soldiers to return her identity card at Qalandia checkpoint.
25 August 2003. A woman sits near the gate in
the Annexation Wall waiting for Israeli soldiers to come to open the
gate so she can return home.
Omar Akawi was one of 13 Palestinian citizens of Israel killed by
Israeli police at the outbreak of the current Intifada. The walls of
the Akawi family home are full of photographs of Omar and posters of the
13
shaheed (martyrs) who were killed in October 2000.
12 December 2004: A mother sits in front of a poster of her son Omar in her home in Nazareth.
Some 50,000 Palestinians live in the Jerusalem neighborhood of
Silwan. In June 2005, the Jerusalem Municipality announced demolition
orders on 88 houses in this neighborhood affecting nearly 1000 people.
Meanwhile Jewish Israeli settlers are moving into Palestinian homes in
the neighborhood. The demolition orders are to enable the creation of
an archeological park in the valley.
27 June 2005: A woman hangs her family's
clothes on the line in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood just outside
the Old City in Jeusalem.
In the hills of South Hebron, Palestinian cave dwellers have been
in a daily struggle for their livelihood in the last several years.
After the efforts to expel them from their land were temporarily
blocked by a court order of the Supreme Court, the efforts taken by
settlers and Israeli authorities took on a different form, that of daily
harassment meant to force the dwellers to leave the caves in which they
have been living for generations.
Photo 16. 07 June 2005: A woman in the community of Qawawis makes a
taboun or an oven for cooking taboun (a traditional Palestinian) bread.
09 April 2005: In the only free standing home
in the community of caves in Qawawis in the hills of South Hebron, a
woman sits and rocks her baby.
05 May 2005: A woman in Qawawis harvests her family's crops.
05 May 2005: Palestinian embroidery is more
than just an art or a craft; it is an integral part of the Palestinian
geographical and cultural landscape. Many of the patterns used in
Palestinian embroidery include designs which were most familiar to
Palestinian women as impressions of their daily surroundings.
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