{"id":778,"date":"2024-07-10T10:51:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T10:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenforpalestine.org\/?post_type=portfolio&p=778"},"modified":"2024-07-25T09:28:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T09:28:03","slug":"la-violencia-contra-las-mujeres","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/womenforpalestine.org\/en\/wfp\/la-violencia-contra-las-mujeres\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence against women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Israeli occupation has conditioned the social construction of Palestinian masculinities insofar as many Zionist practices deliberately seek to challenge Palestinian men's ability to fulfil the role of \"protectors\" and providers for their families and communities. This tension leads to situations of interpersonal violence and controlled family spaces, highlighting the difficulties of finding safe spaces for women in Palestine.<\/p>\n

Many Palestinian women work in the informal sector or in unpaid family activities and are therefore at greater risk of exploitation and inadequate working conditions. As in other contexts, Palestinian women working outside the home are also exposed to gender-based violence. According to a study by Birzeit University's Institute for Women's Studies and the ILO, 22% of the women interviewed acknowledged having been victims of gender-based violence in the workplace, with the phenomenon being more prevalent in the West Bank than in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Thus, for example, it has been reported that in Area C abuses against women - including domestic violence - are not investigated, leading to impunity and the perpetuation of violence. In East Jerusalem, women victims of gender-based violence face the dilemma of either enduring the abuse or reporting it to the Israeli police, at the risk of losing custody of their children or being disowned by their families. This, in a social context that considers that such acts should be kept private. Access to justice is also limited by discriminatory and insensitive attitudes towards gender-based violence on the part of judicial personnel, an area in which women are underrepresented (in 2015, 82% of judges were men, compared to 17% of women). Studies indicate that domestic gender-based violence has increased since the Second Intifada (2000), partly as a result of frustration with Israeli policies, economic pressures and recurring cycles of conflict, which would lead Palestinian men to become more violent in the domestic sphere.<\/p>\n

According to official statistics from a 2011 study, 37% of married Palestinian women had been exposed to violence from their husbands, 29% in the West Bank compared to 51% in Gaza. More recently, another study found that many Palestinians had witnessed violence against their mothers by their fathers or other male family members during their childhood (25% and 22% respectively) and almost one in five men surveyed (17%) acknowledged physical violence against a woman in a relationship.
\nThe detention of many Palestinian men poses a problem for the economic provision of families, who often lose their main source of income. However, when Israel kills them, women not only face a great personal and livelihood loss. For some of them, the option of marrying their brothers-in-law - according to the expectations of traditional practice - is imposed as a way to stay in the family home and avoid child custody disputes.<\/p>\n

It is also necessary to consider the psychological impact on women, who are on constant alert for fear that their children will be arrested, injured or killed as a result of Israeli settler violence and are more reluctant to leave their homes after such experiences. It is also worth noting that recent studies suggest that Palestinian communities more exposed to settler and\/or soldier violence are at greater risk of experiencing gender-based violence.<\/p>\n

La operaci\u00f3n militar israel\u00ed en Gaza en el verano de 2014 fue particularmente grave: en s\u00f3lo dos meses la ofensiva mat\u00f3 a 299 mujeres, incluidas 16 embarazadas, 197 ni\u00f1as e hiri\u00f3 a m\u00e1s de 2.000 personas. Las cifras son anecd\u00f3ticas si nos referimos a la brutalidad del genocidio iniciado el 7 de octubre en Gaza, con m\u00e1s de 30.000 personas asesinadas, con m\u00e1s de 8.800 mujeres y 13.230 menores asesinados. Las mujeres sufren abusos sexuales y ejecuciones sumarias tras su detenci\u00f3n, y la situaci\u00f3n de las mujeres embarazadas es alarmante. En el actual genocidio en Gaza, las mujeres palestinas desplazadas han agotado el suministro de pastillas para reducir el per\u00edodo debido a las condiciones insalubres en las que viven y luchan una batalla diaria para lavarse o encontrar una toalla sanitaria . Muchas de ellas dan a luz en tiendas de campa\u00f1a, mientras que muchas sufren ces\u00e1reas sin anestesia, abortos espont\u00e1neos e infecciones, y luchan por cuidar y alimentar a sus beb\u00e9s. Se estima que 50.000 mujeres est\u00e1n embarazadas en la Franja de Gaza y cada mes 5.000 de ellas se ven obligadas a dar a luz en medio de bombardeos y bombardeos.<\/p>\n

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25 <\/span>Occupation, conflict and patriarchy: Impacts on Palestinian women (2019).<\/a><\/p>\n

26 <\/span>https:\/\/escolapau.uab.cat\/img\/programas\/alerta\/informes\/OcupacionConflictoPatriarcadoES.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

27 <\/span>Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Palestinian Women Under Prolonged Israeli Occupation: The Gendered Impact of Occupation Violence, Universal Periodic Review of Israel, Joint Submission to the UPR Working Group 29th Session, January 2018; Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC), Women's Voices, Nov.2013-Jun 2017.<\/p>\n

28 <\/span>https:\/\/elpais.com\/planeta-futuro\/2024-02-28\/pastillas-para-cortar-la-regla-partos-en-tiendas-de-campana-y-la-proeza-de-encontrar-un-bano-asi-viven-las-gazaties- displaced.html<\/a><\/p>\n

29 <\/span>https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/18mQSbvuYqhV3AWjAnXkflCvaNm284B-P1IOSPmZIo44\/edit#gid=0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n