A Palestinian center that specializes in monitoring Israeli violations in the Palestinian territories said that more than 44 thousand women and girls have been subjected to criminal violations by the Israeli occupation authorities during the past five years.
This came in a report issued by the Land Research Center of the Arab Studies Association, today, Sunday, on the occasion of International Women´s Day (which falls on the eighth of March of each year), covering the occupied lands in 1967. According to the report, the number of Palestinian women who have been subjected to criminal violations during the past five years has reached 44 thousand and 132 women and girls, including 22 thousand and 443 girls of childhood age. The report stated that during that period, the occupation forces attacked approximately 7,722 houses and facilities, describing the condition of the affected families as they had been "blowing winds as refugees in the homeland." The report recalled the suffering of the Dawabshe family and the suffering of the captive Israa Al-Jabais, in reference to the suffering of the Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons, and the female connections in Al-Aqsa who are still subjected to beating, abuse and assault on a daily basis. In a speech to the Center, he said: "While the women of the world celebrate the anniversary of Women´s Day, Palestinian women continue to face on the ground an occupation that has no mercy on its motherhood and does not care about its rights to a decent life and to safe and appropriate housing." He added that Palestinian women have to exhaust all their human potential to protect and confront the crisis of displacement, asylum, displacement and diaspora. Countries of the world celebrate International Women´s Day on March 8 of every year, while the Palestinian government announced, last week, the suspension of working hours in government institutions, to celebrate this occasion.
