A man has confessed to strangling his 23-year-old sister to death in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Friday, police told a rights group…
Police told PCHR … one of her brothers confessed to strangling her to protect “family honor.”
According to a 2011 survey by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, some 73.6 percent of never-married women in Gaza have been exposed to violence by a family member.
Of these women, 92.4 percent were sexually abused and 71.2 percent were physically abused.
My Two Cents
I know, okay?
I know I should expect such reports by now and that I should be used to the world’s silence and hypocrisy.
But I just can’t – I just can’t accept that people can claim to be human rights activists when railing against Israel while completely whitewashing such gross violations of women’s rights in Palestinian society.
Seventy-five percent!
And those are only the non-married women – 90% of married Palestinian women have acknowledged being victims of abuse.
I just -
I’m speechless.
You’re at it again…keep it up