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By: KARAMA
Date: 21/11/2018
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Palestinian Women: The Disproportionate Impact of The Israeli Occupation
The shocking human cost that occupation has taken on Palestinian women is laid bare in research published today. Combining research, extensive surveys, and first-hand testimonies from over 40 Palestinian women, Palestinian Women: The Disproportionate Impact of The Israeli Occupation provides new insight into the gendered experience of occupation, looking into four issues in particular:
Co-authored by four Palestinian NGOs – the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH), Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development (PWWSD), the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC), and Women Media and Development (TAM), the report includes detailed findings that demonstrate how the oppression occupation has permeated women’s daily lives, and the particular impact is has had on women in Palestinian refugee camps, Palestinian women living in Jerusalem, women prisoners, and residents of Gaza who require health services. The impact on refugee women Researchers spoke to 500 Palestinian refugee women from 12 Palestinian camps (7 in the West Bank, 5 in Gaza). Their findings included the following:
Jerusalem: Residency Revocation and Family Reunification According to official figures, 14,595 Palestinians from East Jerusalem had their residency status revoked between 1967 and the end of 2016. Through residency revocations, Israel has separated husbands from wives, parents from children, and extended families from one another, causing traumatic complications for women attempting to remain with their families in both Jerusalem and the West Bank. This leads to traumatic fears of separation from children for mothers and an entrenching of patriarchal practices across society. Palestinian women living in Jerusalem lose residency rights if they get divorced or their husbands remarry. Limiting their access to justice, female victims of domestic violence fear reporting abuse to authorities in case they are forcibly transferred away from their children. Women prisoners Since the beginning of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine in 1967, approximately 10,000 Palestinian women have been arrested and detained by Israeli military forces. According to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs’ 2017 annual report, 1,467 children were arrested last year. Our researchers spoke to prisoners who experienced physical and psychological torture at arrest and imprisonment, and traumatic, gendered treatment, including:
Access to Health in Gaza Israel exercises strict control Gaza’s borders, a policy of ‘actual authority’, constituting continued occupation, despite the withdrawal of its permanent presence. This control in particular affects those who need medical treatment outside of Gaza’s struggling health system, who require permission to leave. The report shows that the rate of approval applications is falling year-by-year:
Of the 26,282 permit applications submitted by patients aiming to exit through Erez in 2016, 8,242 (31.4%) were delayed. Many applicants received no response from border authorities, even after lawyers filed formal applications on their behalf. These delays regularly extend months and years beyond medical appointments, worsening already life-threatening diseases and in some cases resulting in death. Read the full report here, or download it here: Palestinian Women – The Disproportionate Impact of the Israeli Occupation
By: Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)
Date: 10/03/2018
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Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), issued a press release on the Eve of the International Women’s Day
Women represent half of the Palestinian population The qualitative base of the structure of the population in Palestine the sex ratio stood at 103.3, which means that there are 103 males for every 100 females The percentage of female-headed households The percentage of female-headed households in Palestine was 10.6% in 2017, 11.2% in the West Bank and 9.5% in Gaza Strip. fifth of the persons in Palestine got married at an early age (less than 18 years) in 2016 Early marriage reached to 20.5% among females and 1.0% among males of the total married population in Palestine; the rate was 19.9% out of the total married population in West Bank and 21.6% out of the total married population in Gaza Strip end 2016. The highest rate of female early marriage in the West Bank was in Hebron 36.8%, and the lowest was in Jericho and the Jordan Valley 1.2% out of the total number of women marriage below 18 years in the West Bank. In Gaza Strip, the highest rate of early female marriage was 42.1% in Gaza Governorate, while the lowest rate was in Dier Al-Balah 7.1% out of the total number of women marriage below 18 years in Gaza Strip. A continued rise in literacy among women Despite the rise in literacy rates among females over the last decade, the gap is still in favor of males by 3.0%, female literacy rates was 95.6% compared to 98.6% for male literacy in the year 2017. Rise in enrollment rate of females in high schools compared to males Data showed that male enrollment in high schools was 60.5%, compared to female enrollment which was 80.4% for the year 2016-2017. A gap in the participation rate and average daily wages between men and women The female participation rate in the labor force was 19.0% of the total female population at work age in 2017, compared to 10.3% in 2001, while the male participation rate was 71.2% in 2017. There was also a pay gap in the average daily wages between males and females; the average daily wage for females was NIS 84.6 compared to NIS 119.6 for males. Around half of the women are unemployed The unemployment rate among women participated in the labor force was 47.4% compared to 22.3% for participated males. 65.8% of youth females aged of (15-29 years) were unemployed. While the unemployment rate among women with 13 school years and above represents 53.8% of women in this group. Palestinian Women in Public Life In 2017; 21.2% of the members of the local councils are females in the West Bank while 78.8% were males. In 2016, 82.7% of judges were male, compared to 17.3% female, while 66.6% of registered lawyers were male, compared to 33.4% female and 82.0% of members of the public prosecution staff were male, compared to 18.0% female. Furthermore, Palestinian female ambassadors represented 5.8% compared to 94.2% male. Females represented 32.3% of registered engineers with the Union of Engineers while male represented 67.7%. On the other hand, in 2016, 12.4% of members of student councils in West Bank universities were females, compared to 87.6% males. In the public sector, females represented 42.7% of civil servants, compared to 57.3% male civil servant. In the public civil sector, female Director Generals represented 11.3% of the total director generals, compared to 88.7% males in the same post.
By: Safa Agency
Date: 09/08/2014
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Israeli Assault on Gaza By Numbers in 30 Days By the Same Author
Date: 21/07/2003
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OPT: Weekly Press Release
During this reporting period, the Israeli Army continued to violate the First and Fourth Geneva Conventions and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by denying freedom of movement to Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulances and its medical teams, who were threatened by gunfire, humiliated and verbally abused. Delays, denial of access and arbitrary searches had a negative impact on the sick and the wounded in Jenin, Tubas, Jericho, Nablus and Bethlehem. Jenin 12 July 2003 (14:30): Israeli soldiers at the Jannat checkpoint, which controls access to Jenin, stopped a PRCS ambulance on its way to the Ya'bad station. Israeli soldiers searched the ambulance and the crew and arrested one of the EMS medics at gunpoint, tying his hands behind his back and forcing him to sit on the ground next to the tank. As of this writing, the medic is still in detention. Tubas 12 July 2003 (11:40): A PRCS ambulance transporting a patient from the Nablus EMS station to the village of Sadet Qarara was stopped by an Israeli jeep at the Sadet Qarara intersection. The crew was ordered to stay in the ambulance as the soldiers inspected their IDs and license. Twenty minutes later, the soldiers returned the IDs and the license but issued two fines without giving any explanation. Jericho 17 July 2003 (10:15): A PRCS ambulance transporting two patients to Al-Maqassed Hospital and St. John's Ophthalmology Hospital, both in Jerusalem, was stopped by Israeli soldiers at the Za'em checkpoint. The soldiers demanded to see the crew's and the patients' IDs and the latter's referral slips. One of the patients was not carrying a referral slip, but had an appointment card for the Ophthalmology Hospital. After waiting for one half hour, the soldiers told the crew that they would be granted permission to cross the checkpoint. Forty-five minutes and still waiting, the soldiers changed their minds. They ordered the crew to turn back using threatening language. In total, the ambulance was detained for 75 minutes. In addition to the above, the following table lists incidents of delay of access during this reporting period. PRCS Branch Date Checkpoint Delay of Access (unless indicated 'denied access') Nablus 13/7/2003 Howwara 120 minutes 17/7/2003 Al Ram 50 minutes Bethlehem 17/7/2003 Gilo 105 minutes These incidents constitute a breach of articles 19, 24 and 25 of the First Geneva Convention, which guarantees the protection of medical units, establishments and personnel, as well as articles 27, 55 and 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which calls for the protection of civilians. Date: 13/12/2002
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PRCS Ambulance & Crew are Being Used as Shields
December 13th, 2002 Israeli army blocked an on duty PRCS ambulance transporting a patient in the city of Nablus. An Israeli tank stopped the ambulance and soldiers ordered the medical team to take two Israeli soldiers to Askar Refugee Camp. When the medical team refused, the Israeli soldiers confiscated their National Identity Cards and forced them to follow the tank, acting as a shield, until they reached Salem checkpoint. There, soldiers checked the ambulance and an Israeli soldier held the EMT driver at gunpoint. This latest Israeli aggression is yet another in a long string of violations of the Fourth Geneva Conventions specifically articles (34) & (147) which state that: Article (34) “The taking of hostages is prohibited.”
The above actions are also in direct violation of the protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions specifically article (51) & (85) Article (51) “The presence or movements of the civilian population or individual civilians shall not be used or render certain points or areas immune from military operations, in particular an attempts to shield military objectives from attacks or to shield, favour or impede military operations. The Parties to the conflict shall not direct the movement of the civilian population or individual civilians in order to attempt to shield military objectives from attacks or to shield military operations. Article (85)(f) “The perfidious use, in violation of Article 37, of the distinctive emblem of the Red Cross, Red Crescent or Red Lion and Sun or of other protective signs recognized by the Conventions or this Protocol” Furthermore, Israeli Occupation Forces once again violated International Law Concerning the Conduct of Hostilities that forbids “ improper use of a flag of truce, of the national flag or of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy, as well as the distinctive badges of the Geneva Convention” ********************************************************* For Further Information Please Contact Press Office at +972 2 240 6515/6/7
Date: 15/05/2002
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Invasion Update Mar-Apr 2002
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